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1Ch_7:6 [The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
Ver. 6. The sons of Benjamin.] The genealogies of Dan and Zebulon are left out, for causes unknown; haply, because at their return out of Babylon their genealogies were not found. Dan is also - for their apostasy, likely, and idolatry - not reckoned among the rest that were sealed. {Rev_7:5-8} That Antichrist should be one of this tribe, is a fiction rightly exploded. We read of Hushim, {1Ch_7:12} the sons of Aher, which signifieth Another - and so some render it - by Another, understanding Dan, {compare Gen_46:23} whom the penman of this book held not worth the naming. The Hebrews, when they would show their detestation of any person or thing, they call it acher; a sow they call dabshar acher, that is, another thing; so leaven at the passover, &c. {a}
{a} Elias Thisbit.