First Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 949
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
bore ;-—'I`he Aramith bore Makir, the
15 founder 0fGi1ad. And Makir married women from the Khupites, and the Shupites; and the name of his wife was Makah. And the name of his second son was Zelofkad; and Zelofkad had beautiful daughters.
16 But Makah, the wife of Makir bore a son, and called his name Feresh, and his brother's name was Sheresh, and his sons Aulam, and Rakem. :7 And the sons of Aulam were Bedan. These were the sons of Gilad-ben-
18 Makir—ben-Menasseh. And his sister Hamoleketh bore Aishohr, and
rg Abiazer, and Makblah. And the sons of Shamida were, Akhian, and Shekem, and Likki, and Abiam. zo Now the Beni Ephraim. Shothlakh, and his son Bered, and his son, Thakhath, and his son Aladah, and
zr his son Thakhath, and his son Zabad, and his sons Shothelak, and Azar, and Alad. But the men of Gath, natives of the country killed them, when they went down to steal
22 their cattle. And Ephraim} their father, mourned for them many days, but his friends came to him to com-
23 fort him. Then he went to his wife and she bore a son, and he called his name Beriah,$ because sudering
24 had come to his house. And he had a daughter Sharah who founded Beth- horon the Lower, and the Higher,
25 and Azan-sharah. Refakh was his son, and Reshef, and his son Thelakh,
26 and his son Thakhan, with his son Adan, and his son Amihud, his son
27 Alishama, his son Kan, his son :8 jhoshua; and they possessed and
named here was certainly not Ephraim the son ofjoseph, the great Statesman, who after the Seven Years of Famine remoulded the ibes of E trgypt into one homogeneons and powerful N ation, and thus was e hrst man who conceived the idea of Government by Nations instead of by Tribes. The Ephraim who was his son had died several hundred before h ¥;ears,··——say 5oo,-—te man mentioned ere wasborn. The Ephraim of 1 Chronicles, v. 22 was a Chief of a Clan of the Palestine Heb here about the eriod of
rews somewXSamson, and in this pedigree is cite to prove a claim to lands by his descendants on the return from Babylon under Zerubbabel, about g36 before Christ.-F. F. 2 Su eriag. settled Beth-el, and its Hamlets, and to the east Naran and Marab, Gezer, and its Hamlets, and Shekum, and its Hamlets, to Azah, and its Hamlets. And at the side of the Beni Menas· 2g seh,-—-Bethshan, and its Hamlets; and Anak, and its Hamlets; Megido, and its Hamlets; Dod, and its Hamlets; The Beni joseph-ben- Israel resided in these. The Beni Ashur. Imnah; and Ishvah; and Ishvi;
and Beriah; and Serah, their sister. And the Beni Beriah :—··Heber, and 31 Malkiah; he was the founder of Birzavith. And Heber begot jadet, 32 and Shamer, and Khotham, and Shuaa, their sister. 33 And the sons of jadat; Fasak, and Bimalel, and Ashua. Those were the children of jadat. 34 And the sons of Shamar; Akhi, Ruhgah, Ikhubah, and Aram; 35 and of the Ben·helem his brother, Z0fakh—-and Imna, and Shelsh, and Amal. The sons of Zofakh, Sukh, 36 Kharnafer, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah; Betzer, and Hud, and Shania, 37 and Shilshak, and Ithran, and Bara; And the sons of Ither }elimeh, and 38 Fisfah, and Ara. And the sons of 39 Ala,Arakl1, and Khanial, and Bitzia. All these were of the Beni Ashur, 40 Chiefs of Ancestral Houses. Illus- trious, Great Men. Princely Chiefs, with pedigrees, with a number of twenty-six thousand men for war and battle. Now Benjamin begot, Bela, his 8 firstborn, Ashbal the second, and Akhrakh, the third. Nokbah, the 2 fourth, and Refa, the iifth. And Bela had 'sons ;—-Adar, and 3
Nera, and Abihud, and Abishua,. 4 and Naman, and Akhokh, and Gera, 5 and Shafufan, and Khoram.-—-·'I`hese are a few descendants ;·—those of 6 them who are Ancestral Chiefs to the settlers in Geba whom they emigrated with to Makhath, when Naman, and 7 Akhukham, and Gera, emigrated together; he also begot Azah, and Ahikhud. He also begot Mulattos 8 in the plain of Moab, from imported Kushites and from his barbarian wives. So he begot from Khodsh, 9 his wife, jobab, Zibia, and Misha, and Malkam; javatz, and Shabia, and Mirmah.·—·—These sons of his were Ancestral Chiefs. And from the Khushites he begot, Abitub, and Alfal. And the sons of Alfal 940 I0
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