Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 7:3
And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
3. five ] We can make up this number only by counting Izrahiah one and the sons of Izrahiah four. Reckoned thus the second Izrahiah would denote a fresh person.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 3. The sons of lzrahiah – five] There are, however, only four names in the text. Instead of five, the Syriac and Arabic read four. If five be the true reading, then Izrahiah must be reckoned with his four sons.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The sons, for the son; for he names but one son.
Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five, including their father
Izrahiah.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
3. five: all of them chief menFouronly are mentioned; so that as they are stated to be five, in thisnumber the father, Izrahiah, must be considered as included;otherwise one of the names must have dropped out of the text. Theywere each at the head of a numerous and influential division of theirtribe.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah,…. Including his posterity:
and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five; together with their father, all reckoned the sons of Uzzi:
all of them chief men; in their father’s house, heads of families.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(3) 1Ch. 8:1
All the lists make Bela the first of Benjamins sons. In other respects they differ greatly. 1Ch. 7:6 assigns him two brothersecher and Jediael. Of these, Becher occurs in Genesis 46, Jediael here only.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ch 7:3. All of them chief men Heads of families. They are said to have been five. Four only are reckoned; the name of one is omitted.
REFLECTIONS.Ephraim, the most distinguished of the tribes next to Judah, suffers more than any of them at first. We have here,
1. The breach made in his family. The men of Gath, who had gone up from Egypt to settle there, now made an irruption upon that part of Goshen where Zabad (who seems to be a second son of Ephraim after Shuthelah) and his sons fed their cattle, in defending which they lost their lives. Note; (1.) We are nowhere safe from danger; therefore, as those who are in jeopardy every hour, let us be always ready for the stroke of death. (2.) A good cause is not always successful. God now often permits the wicked to prosper; but a day is coming, when all God’s dispensations will be cleared up to us.
2. Ephraim beheld with anguish the losses of his family, and was ready to lay down his grey hairs with sorrow in the grave; but his brethren pour the friendly balm of consolation into his wounded heart, and encourage him to trust still in God. Note; (1.) They who live long, often live to see their sorrows multiplied, and to bury the choicest of their worldly comforts. (2.) To soothe the grief of the afflicted, is to act the part of a brother: an unfeeling heart cannot be in a true Israelite.
3. God gave him another son in his old age, whom, in remembrance of the evils which had happened to his family, he called Beriah, in evil; a fit name for every miserable babe born in sin, exposed to an evil world, and liable to eternal suffering.
4. The genealogy closes with Joshua, so famed in the book of God, who was the peculiar glory of this tribe. Note; A great good man reflects honour on all who are related to him.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
1Ch 7:3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
Ver. 3. And the sons of Uzzi, ] i.e., The son; for it is likely that Uzzi had more sons, but nothing so famous as was Izrahiah.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
sons. A special various reading called Sevir (App-34) reads “son”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
7:3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, {c} five: all of them chief men.
(c) Meaning, the four sons and the father.