11 All these were sons of Jediael , according to the heads of their fathers' households , 17,200 e e e mighty men of valor , who were ready to go out with the army to war . 12 Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir ; Hushim was the son of Aher .
13 The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel , Guni , Jezer , and Shallum , the sons of Bilhah .
14 The sons of Manasseh were Asriel , whom his Aramean concubine bore ; she bore Machir the father of Gilead .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 7:11-14
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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.