The sons of Naphtali were Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
Parallel translations
- WEB The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
- KJV And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
- BSB The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
- NKJV The sons of Naphtali were Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
- NASB And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
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The sons of Naphtali are listed among Jacob's family. They form the tribe of Naphtali.
Overview
Naphtali was Bilhah's second son. His four sons head one of the twelve tribes, whose territory in Galilee would later be the region where Jesus conducted much of His ministry (Isaiah 9 and Matthew 4). Even these genealogies quietly point forward to where the light of the gospel would dawn.
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- 1 Chr 7:13The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.
- Deut 33:23About Naphtali he said, “Naphtali, satisfied with favor, full of Yahweh’s blessing, Possess the west and the south.”
- Gen 35:25The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.
- Num 1:42–43Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Num 26:48–50The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
- Num 1:15Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”
- 2 Kgs 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
- 1 Chr 12:34Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
- 1 Chr 2:2Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
- Gen 49:21“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.
- Gen 30:7–8Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
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