30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beri'ah, and their sister Serah. 31 The sons of Beri'ah: Heber and Mal'chi-el, who was the father of Bir'zaith. 32 Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shu'a. 33 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet. 34 The sons of Shemer his brother: Rohgah, Jehub'bah, and Aram. 35 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal. 36 The sons of Zophah: Su'ah, Har'nepher, Shu'al, Beri, Imrah, 37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Be-e'ra. 38 The sons of Jether: Jephun'neh, Pispa, and Ara. 39 The sons of Ulla: Arah, Han'niel, and Rizi'a. 40 All of these were men of Asher, heads of fathers' houses, approved, mighty warriors, chief of the princes. Their number enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was twenty-six thousand men.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 7:30-40
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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.