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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 afterwards Hezron went to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, and he took her when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
²²And Segub begot Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead;
²³and Geshur and Aram took the villages of Jair from them, with Kenath and its dependent towns, sixty cities. All these were 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 sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees. (Gen. 50:23)

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Num. 27:1• ¹Then drew near 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 were 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 do 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 Jehovah has said to thy servants, so will we do.
³²We will pass over armed before Jehovah into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance on this side the Jordan shall be ours.
³³And Moses gave to them, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og the king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and territories, the cities of the land round about.
³⁴And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
³⁵and Atroth-Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbebah,
³⁶and Beth-Nimrah, and Beth-haran, strong cities, and sheepfolds.
³⁷--And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Kirjathaim,
³⁸and Nebo, and Baal-meon (of which the names were changed), and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities that they built.
³⁹--And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and they dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.
⁴⁰And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
⁴¹And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took their hamlets, and called them Havoth-Jair.
⁴²And Nobah went and took Kenath, and its dependent villages, and called it Nobah, after his name. (Num. 32:30‑42)

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Deut. 3:13‑15• ¹³and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob, even all Bashan, is called a land of giants.
¹⁴Jair the son of Manasseh took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and called Bashan after his own name, Havoth-Jair, to this day.)
¹⁵And I gave Gilead to Machir. (Deut. 3:13‑15)

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

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Josh. 17:1‑3• ¹And the lot came to the tribe of Manasseh (for he was the firstborn of Joseph), to Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war, and he had Gilead and Bashan.
²There was also a portion for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to 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 are the children of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the males, according to their families.
³And 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 came those whose root was in Amalek; After thee was Benjamin among thy peoples. Out of Machir came down governors, And out of Zebulun they that handled the staff of the ruler. (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.