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Shuppim also, and Huppim, called Muppim and Huppim, Gen_46:21, also Hupham and Shupham, Num_26:39.
The sons of Aher; but divers take the Hebrew word aher for a common, not proper name, and render the words thus, another son, or the son of another family or tribe, to wit, of Dan, as may be gathered,
1. From Gen_46:23, where Hushim is mentioned as the only son of Dan, where also the word sons is used of that one man, as it is here.
2. From the clause of the next verse, the sons of Bilhah, who was mother both to Dan and Naphtali.
3. Because otherwise the genealogy of Dan is quite left out.
4. From the word another, which is used in the Hebrew writers to design an abominable thing which the writer disdained to mention; whence they call a swine, which to them was a very unclean and loathsome creature, another thing. And it must be remembered that the tribe of Dan had made themselves and their memory infamous and detestable by that gross idolatry, which began first and continued longest in that tribe, Jud 18; for which reason many interpreters conceive this tribe is omitted in the numbering of the scaled persons, Re 7.