14 The sons of Manasseh were Asriel , whom his Aramean concubine bore ; she bore Machir the father of Gilead . 15 Machir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim , whose sister's name was Maacah . And the name of the second was Zelophehad , and Zelophehad had daughters . 16 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son , and she named e him Peresh ; and the name of his brother was Sheresh , and his sons were Ulam and Rakem . 17 The son of Ulam was Bedan . These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir , the son of Manasseh . 18 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah . 19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam .
20 The sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah and Bered his son , Tahath his son , Eleadah his son , Tahath his son ,
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 7:14-20
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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.