1 Chronicles 7:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

The sons of Benjamin - ten are reckoned, Genesis 46:21, but only five, 1 Chronicles 8:1; Numbers 26:38. Perhaps five of them were distinguished as chiefs of illustrious families, but two having fallen in the bloody wars waged against Benjamin (Judges 20:46), there remained only three branches of this tribe, and these only are enumerated; and Becher became incorporated, by marriage with an Ephraimite heiress, with the tribe Ephraim (see the notes at 1 Chronicles 7:20-21: cf. Numbers 26:35). Jediael - or Asbel (Genesis 46:21).

1 Chronicles 7:6

6 The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.