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Twelve banim of Yisrael (Yaakov) (gen 29:31-30:24; 35:16-18)
2:1 These [are] Benai Yisra'el; Reuven, Shimon, Levi, and Yehudah, Yissakhar, and Zevulun,
2:2 Dan, Yosef, and Benyamin, Naftali, Gad, and Asher.
(Ruth 4:18-22; Matt 1:2-6; Luke 3:31-33)
Er, and Onan, and Shelah:
[which] three
were born unto him of *Bat-Shua the Kanaanit. And
Er(
), the bechorah Yehudah, was evil in the sight of YHWH (יהוה);
and he slew him.
2:4 And *Tamar his daughter-in-law bare him
Peretz and Zerach.
All Benai Yehudah [were] five.
2:5 Benai Peretz:
Hetzron, and Hamul.
2:6 And Benai Zerah:
Zimri, and Eitan, and Heman, and Kalkol, and Dara:
five of them in all.
Achar(), the troubler of Yisra'el, who
transgressed in the thing cherem (accursed).
2:8 And benai Eitan: Azar'yah.
2:9 Benai also of Hetzron, that were born unto him;
Yerahme'el, and Ram, and Keluvai.
2:10 And Ram begat Amminadav; and Amminadav begat Nahshon, prince of benai Yehudah;
2:11 And Nachshon begat Salma (Salmon)*, and Salma begat Bo'az,
2:12 And Bo'az begat Oved, and Oved begat Yishai,
2:13 And Yishai begat his bachor Eliav, and Avi Nadav the second, and Shimma the third,
2:14 Netane'el the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
2:15
Ozem the sixth, *Davyid the seventh:
2:16 Whose sisters [were] Tz'ruyah, and Avigail. And Benai Tz'ruyah; Avishai, and Yo'av, and Asah'el, three.
2:17 And Avigayil bare Amasa: and the avi Amasa [was] Yeter the Yishme'elite.
2:18 And *Kalev Ben Hetzron begat [children] of Azuvah [his] wife, and of Yeriot: her banim [are] these; Yesher, and Shobav, and Ardon.
2:19 And when Azuvah was dead, Kalev took unto him Efrat, which bare him Hur.
2:20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat B'tzal'el.
2:21 And afterward Hetzron went in to bat Machir the avi Gil'ad , whom he married when he [was] threescore years old; and she bare him Seguv.
2:22 And Seguv begat Yair, who had three and twenty cities in the eretz Gil'ad .
2:23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Yair, from them, with Kenat, and the towns thereof, [even] threescore cities. All these [b'elonged to] Benai Machir the avi Gil'ad .
2:24 And after that Hetzron was dead in Kalev-efratah, then Av'yah Hetzron's wife bare him Ashur the avi Tekoa.
2:25 And Benai Yerahme'el the bechorah Hetzron were, Ram the bachor, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, [and] Ahi'yah.
2:26 Yerahme'el had also another wife, whose name [was] Atarah; she [was] the mother of Onam.
2:27 And Benai Ram the bechorah Yerahme'el were, Maaz, and Yamin, and Eker.
2:28 And Benai Onam were, Shammai, and Yada. And Benai Shammai; Nadav, and Avishur.
2:29 And the name of the wife of Avishur [was] Avihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.
2:30 And Benai Nadav; S'eled, and Appaim: but S'eled died without children.
2:31 And Benai Appaim; Yishi. And Benai Yishi; Sheshan. And benai Sheshan; Ahlai.
2:32 And Benai Yada the achi Shammai; Yether, and Yonatan: and Yeter died without children.
2:33 And Benai Yonatan; Pelet, and Zaza. These were Benai Yerahme'el.
2:34 Now Sheshan had no banim, but daughters. And Sheshan had a eved, an Mitzrites, whose name [was] Yarha.
2:35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Yarha his eved to wife; and she bare him Attai.
2:36 And Attai begat Natan, and Natan begat Zabad,
2:37 And Zavad begat Eflal, and Eflal begat Oved,
2:38 And Oved begat Yehu, and Yehu begat Azar'yah,
2:39 And Azar'yah begat H'elez, and H'elez begat Eleasah,
2:40 And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,
2:41 And Shallum begat Yekam'yah, and Yekam'yah begat Elishama.
2:42 Now Benai Kalev the achi Yerahme'el [were], Mesha his bachor, which was the avi Zif; and Benai Mareshah the avi Chevron.
2:43 And Benai Chevron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
2:44 And Shema begat Raham, the avi Yorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.
2:45 And Ben Shammai [was] Maon: and Maon [was] the avi Beit-Tzur.
2:46 And Efah, Kalev's piylegesh (concubine), bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.
2:47 And Benai yahdai; Regem, and Yotam, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Efah, and Shaaf.
2:48 Maachah, Kalev's piylegesh (concubine), bare Shever, and Tirhanah.
2:49 She bare also Sha'af the avi Madmannah, Sheva the avi Machbenah, and the avi Giv'a: and bat Kalev [was] Achsah.
2:50 These were Benai Kalev *Ben Hur, the bechorah Efratah; Shoval the avi Kiryat-Ye'arim,
2:51 Salma the avi Beit Lechem, Haref the avi Beit-gader.
2:52 And Shoval the avi Kiryat-Ye'arim had banim; Haroeh, [and] half of the Manahethites.
2:53 And the families of Kiryat-Ye'arim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites.
2:54 Benai Salma; Beit Lechem*, and the Netofatites, Atarot, the bayit of Yo'av, and half of the Manahetites, the Zorites.
2:55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at *Ya'betz; the Tirathites, the Shimeatites, [and] Suchatites. These [are] the *Kenites that came of Hemat, the avi the bayit of Rechav.
banim of Yisrael, benai Yisrael: Why do you believe that b'nei Yisrael means "banim of Yisrael, and not "benai Yisrael"?
Banim or benai (banim of Yisrael)
Ben (son of)
The Hebrew term b'nei Yisrael very clearly means "banim of Yisrael" and not "benai Yisrael," as meaning that women are included. In the Tanakh (Old Testament), men are always the ones who are counted in an official census, and the women and small children are not counted. The "banim of Yisrael" are to properly train the women in what is akkeptable and unakkeptable, but there are very clearly mitzvot in the Torah, such as wearing tzit-tzits or wrapping tefillin, that are only applicable to men. B'nei Yisrael is only inclusive regarding women when it is clear that a commandment is applicable to all the Yisraelites, meaning Benai and their households.
Benai Yehudah Whom he puts first, because the best part of the right of the firstborn, namely, the dominion, was conferred upon him, Gen_49:8, and because the Messiah was to come out of his loins.
There is two Kalev in the Scripture:- -Karmi : - Who is here mentioned, because he was the son of Zimri, who is also called Zabdi, Jos_7:1. Achar - Called Achan, Yehoshua 7:1, and here Achar, with a little variation for greater significancy: for Achar signifies a troubler.
Gil'ad - Of a man so called: a man of noted valour, and the great champion in those parts.
Ben Machir - Partly to his own sons, and partly to his son - in - law Jair, who by reason of that dear affection which was betwixt them, and his forsaking his own tribe and kindred to fight for them and to dwell with them, is here reckoned as his own son.
Kenites A tribe of nomads named in association with various other peoples. They are first mentioned along with the Kadmonites and Kenizzites among the peoples whose land was promised to Abram (Gen_15:19). Balaam, seeing them from the heights of Moab; puns upon their name, which resembles the Hebrew ḳēn, “a nest,” prophesying their destruction although their nest was “set in the rock” - possibly a reference to Sela, the city. Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, is called “the priest of Midian” in Exo_3:1; Exo_18:1; but in Jdg_1:16 he is described as a Kenite, showing a close relation between the Kenites and Midian. At the time of Sisera's overthrow, Heber, a Kenite, at “peace” with Jabin, king of HaZôr, pitched his tent far North of his ancestral seats (Jdg_4:17). There were Kenites dwelling among the Amalekites in the time of Saul (1Sa_15:6). They were spared because they had “showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” David, in his answer to Achish, links the Kenites with the inhabitants of the South of Judah (1Sa_27:10). Among the ancestors of the tribe of Judah, the Chronicler includes the Kenite Hammath, the father of the Rechabites (1Ch_2:55). These last continued to live in tents, practicing the ancient nomadic customs (Jer_35:6 ff).
The word ḳēnī in Aramaic means “smith.” Professor Sayce thinks they may really have been a tribe of smiths, resembling “the gipsies of modern Europe, as well as the traveling tinkers or blacksmiths of the Middle Ages” (HDB, under the word). This would account for their relations with the different peoples, among whom they would reside in pursuit of their calling.In Josephus they appear as Kenetides, and in Ant., IV, vii, 3 he calls them “the race of the Shechemites.”
Ben Hur - He is here assigned to the tribe of Judah, and in 1 Ch is connected with the same by descent through Caleb (1Ch_2:19, 1Ch_2:20, 1Ch_2:50; 1Ch_4:1, 1Ch_4:4)