=10.= _Jediael_] or rather _Jahleel_. _Benjamin, and Ehud_] The error in verse 6 by which this Zebulunite list becomes ostensibly Benjamite must have been very early. When once it had arisen, the tendency to introduce names which were to be expected in a Benjamite genealogy was inevitably strong. This is the ground on which the names _Anathoth_ and _Alemeth_ (verse 8) are to be explained, as also _Shuppim_ and _Huppim_ (verse 12). Most clearly, however, is the tendency illustrated by the present verse, where the reading _Benjamin and Ehud_ most probably has its origin in a marginal addition “and Ehud the Benjamite” (from Judges iii. 15) which was later inserted in the text as two separate names. _Tarshish_] It is said of Zebulun in Genesis xlix. 13 that he shall be “a haven for ships,” and _Tarshish_, absolutely unknown as a Hebrew personal name, is regularly used in the Old Testament in connection with ships and commerce by sea. It would be astonishingly out of place in a genealogy of Benjamin, but is appropriate in one of Zebulun (compare Genesis xlix. 13 “Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea”). ¹¹All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ _houses_, mighty men of valour, seventeen thousand and two hundred, that were able to go forth in the host for war. =11.= _able to go forth_] the total number of warriors is here 59,434; compare 50,000 in xii. 33; and compare Numbers i. 37, xxvi. 41. ¹²Shuppim¹ also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir², Hushim, the sons of Aher³. ¹ In Numbers xxvi. 39, _Shephupham_ and _Hupham_. ² In verse 7, _Iri_. ³ In Numbers xxvi. 38, _Ahiram_. =12.= _Shuppim also, and Huppim_] for the spelling compare viii. 5, Numbers xxvi. 39, and Genesis xlvi. 21. These Benjamite names are an addition, and illustrate the tendency referred to above in the note on _Benjamin and Ehud_, verse 10. =12b.= THE GENEALOGY OF DAN. _Ir_] compare verse 7, Iri. But see following note. _Hushim, the sons of Aher_] In _Aher_ (literally “another”) some commentators find the word _Dan_. More probably _Ir_ is a corruption for Dan, and the word _Aher_ an error for “one” (the differences are small in Hebrew). Following the indication of Genesis xlvi. 23 and the LXX., read therefore =the sons of Dan, Hushim his son, one=. =13.= (= Genesis xlvi. 24). THE GENEALOGY OF NAPHTALI. ¹³The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel¹, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum², the sons of Bilhah. ¹ In Genesis xlvi. 24, _Jahzeel_. ² In Genesis xlvi. 24, _Shillem_. =13.= _Jahziel ... Shallum_] In Genesis _Jahzeel ... Shillem_. =14‒19.= THE GENEALOGY OF MANASSEH. A difficult section. The text is much disturbed in verses 14, 15; and there is hardly any material available for the illustration of verses 16, 17.