SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:21
Zabad su hijo, y Sutela su hijo, Ezer, y Elad. Mas los hijos de Gat, naturales de aquella tierra, los mataron, porque vinieron a tomarles sus ganados.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 7:21
Verse 21. Whom the men of Gath-slew] We know nothing of this circumstance but what is related here. The Targum paraphrases the whole thus: "These were the leaders of the house of Ephraim; and they computed their period [or boundary, axyk kitsa] from the time in which the Word of the Lord of the universe spake with Abraham between the divisions, [i.e., the separated parts of the covenant sacrifice; see Gen. xv. 9- 21,] but they erred, for they should have counted from the time in which Isaac was born; they went out of Egypt therefore thirty years before the period: for, thirty years before the birth of Isaac the Word of the Lord of the universe spake with Abraham between the divisions. And when they went out of Egypt, there were with them two hundred thousand warriors of the tribe of Ephraim, whom the men of Gath, the natives of the land of the Philistines, slew, because they came down that they might carry away their cattle. 22. - And Ephraim their father mourned for them many days, and all his brethren came to comfort him. 23. - And he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bare a son, and called his name Beriah, ( h[yrb in evil,) because he was born in the time in which this evil happened to his house."
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. And Zabad his son , etc.] Not the son of Tahath the second last mentioned, but the son of Ephraim, a second son of his: and Shuthelah ; his son, the son of Zabad, called after his uncle’s name, ( 1 Chronicles 7:20) and Ezer, and Elead ; two other sons of Zabad: whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew : that is, Zabad and his three sons; these the men of Gath slew, who were Philistines that dwelt there, and were originally of Egypt, and were born in that land, but had removed into Palestine, which had its name from them, of which Gath was one of its cities; and this bordering upon the land of Goshen, or being near it, where the Israelites dwelt, they made inroads upon them, and plundered them: because they came down to take away their cattle ; and the sons, the grandsons of Ephraim, resisted them, and so were slain: and that the aggressors were not the Ephraimites, who went out of Egypt before their time, and fell upon the men of Gath, born in the land of the Philistines, in order to dispossess them of their land and substance, and were slain by them, which is the sense of the Targum and other writers, both Jewish and Christian; but the men of Gath, as is clear from this circumstance, that they came down , as men did when they went from Palestine to Egypt, not when they went from Egypt to Palestine, then they “went up”; which would have been the phrase used, if this had been an expedition of the Ephraimites into Palestine; besides, it is not reasonable to think, that the Ephraimites, addicted to husbandry and cattle, and not used to war, should engage in such an enterprise; but rather the men of Gath, or the Philistines, who were a warlike people, and given to spoil and plunder; this, according to a learned chronologer f60 , was seventy four years after Jacob went down to Egypt, and one hundred and forty years before the children of Israel came from thence.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Genealogies. --Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. We can assign no reaso why they only should be omitted; but it is the disgrace of the tribe of Dan, that idolatry began in that colony which fixed in Laish, an called it Dan, Jud 18 and there one of the golden calves was set up by Jeroboam. Dan is omitted, Re 7. Men become abominable when they forsak the worship of the true God, for any creature object __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וזבד 2066 בנו 1121 ושׁותלח 7803 בנו 1121 ועזר 5827 ואלעד 496 והרגום 2026 אנשׁי 582 גת 1661 הנולדים 3205 בארץ 776 כי 3588 ירדו 3381 לקחת 3947 את 853 מקניהם׃ 4735
