1 Chronicles 8:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Now Benjamin begat Bela He had spoken something of this tribe before, chap. 1 Chronicles 7:6; but now he treats of it again, and that more fully and exactly: partly for Saul's sake, who was of this tribe; and partly because this tribe adhered to David, and the kingdom of Judah, and went with Judah into Babylon; and now were returned from thence in greater numbers than the other tribes, except Judah. Bela his firstborn So called by Moses: but the names of the rest vary from those in Moses. Therefore either these were Benjamin's grand-children, or the same person had two or more names, which was not unusual.