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1 Chron. 7:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:

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The sons.The text in these two verses seems to be strangely corrupted; and, as it stands, is scarcely intelligible.

Probably it should be rendered, "The sons of Manasseh were Ashriel, whom his Syrian concubine bore to him; and Machir the father of Gilead, whom (his wife) bore to him.

Machir took for a wife Maachah, sister to Huppim and Shuppim."

This is nearly the version of Dr. Geddes.Machir.

1 Chron. 2:21‑23• ²¹And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.
²²And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
²³And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. (1 Chron. 2:21‑23)

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Gen. 50:23• ²³And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees. (Gen. 50:23)

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Num. 26:29‑34• ²⁹Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.
³⁰These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
³¹And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
³²And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
³³And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
³⁴These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred. (Num. 26:29‑34)

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Num. 27:1• ¹Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. (Num. 27:1)

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Num. 32:30‑42• ³⁰But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
³¹And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the Lord hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
³²We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.
³³And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
³⁴And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
³⁵And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
³⁶And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
³⁷And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
³⁸And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
³⁹And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
⁴⁰And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
⁴¹And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair.
⁴²And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name. (Num. 32:30‑42)

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Deut. 3:13‑15• ¹³And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
¹⁴Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, unto this day.
¹⁵And I gave Gilead unto Machir. (Deut. 3:13‑15)

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Josh. 13:31• ³¹And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families. (Josh. 13:31)

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Josh. 17:1‑3• ¹There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
²There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
³But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. (Josh. 17:1‑3)

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Judg. 5:14• ¹⁴Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. (Judg. 5:14)

• Here, as elsewhere in these genealogies, women are referred to continually, one more proof that these genealogies were put together only after the captivity, amid the irregularities that characterized Israel's ruin. Through the female line of descent indicators could be established so as to retrace a genealogy, whereas a normal state of affairs would not have required such mentions. Thirteen women are alluded to in these few verses (1 Chron. 7:14-19), including the five daughters of Zelophehad. (“Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Ephraim, Asher. the Daughters of Zelophehad: 1 Chronicles 7” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

The sons of Manasseh: Asrielb, … whom she bore; his Syrian concubine bore Machir the father of Gilead.

JND Translation Notes

There seems to be here some omission in the text.