Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
Parallel translations
- WEB Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
- KJV And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
- BSB Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
- NKJV Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
- NLT Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
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Quick answer
Bela's line concludes with Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
Overview
This verse finishes the listing of Bela's sons. The record carefully tracks the branches of Benjamin's leading family. Such detail upheld the inheritance order of the tribe within Israel under God's covenant arrangement.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- 1 Chr 7:12So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.
- Num 26:39of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
- Judg 3:15But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
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