11 All these 'are' sons of Jediael, even heads of the fathers, mighty in valour, seventeen thousand and two hundred going out to the host for battle. 12 And Shuppim and Huppim 'are' sons of Ir; Hushim son of Aher.
13 Sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, sons of Bilhah.
14 Sons of Manasseh: Ashriel, whom Jaladah his Aramaean concubine bare, with Machir father of Gilead. 15 And Machir took wives for Huppim and for Shuppim, and the name of the one 'is' Maachah, and the name of the second Zelophehad, and Zelophehad hath daughters. 16 And Maachah wife of Machir beareth a son and calleth his name Peresh, and the name of his brother 'is' Sheresh, and his sons 'are' Ulam and Rakem. 17 And son of Ulam: Bedan. These 'are' sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh. 18 And his sister Hammolecheth bare Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah. 19 And the sons of Shemida are Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
20 And sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, 21 and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead; and slain them have men of Gath who are born in the land, because they came down to take their cattle. 22 And Ephraim their father mourneth many days, and his brethren come in to comfort him,
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 7:11-22
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Genealogies.
Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. We can assign no reason why they only should be omitted; but it is the disgrace of the tribe of Dan, that idolatry began in that colony which fixed in Laish, and called it Dan, Revelation 7. Men become abominable when they forsake the worship of the true God, for any creature object.