Sered, Elon, Jahleel, Gn 46",
Nothing further than their mention is known of these clans. Klon, probably an epouym from the clan, is one of the minor judges of Israel, who was buried in a place of the same name whose locality is unknown (Jg lalit, cf. Moore, in loc.). Ne genealogy of Zebulun is given by the Chronicler.
Vll.a 1. Manasseh: o. Machir, Abiezer (7) Helek, Asriel, Shechem (5), Hepher (6), Shemida (5), Jos 17"-.
b. Machir, Gilead, lezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Shemida, Hepher, Nu 26-'»-3-.
c. (ra. Araiiuvan concubine) Machir (f. Gilead) j Zelophehad (G), d. Hammolecheth (7), 1 Ch 7'-"- 1».
2. Machir (l^i*): (m. Maacah) Peresh, Sheresh (3), 1 Ch -"i.
3. Sheresh (2) : Ulam (1), Rakem, 1 Ch 7". i. Ulam (3) : Bedan, 1 Ch 7".
5. Shemida (l-'b): Abian, Shechem (!»>)) Likhi, Aniam, 1 Ch 7"».
6. Hepher (lb): Zelophehad (l<^), dd. Mahlali, Noah, Hodiah, Milcah, Tirzab, Nu '20^ 27'.
7. Hammolecheth (1°): Ishliod, Abiezer (1«), and Mahlah, 1 Ch 7'".
The genealogy of the tribe of Manasseh appears in different tonus. Of the clans enumerated (I'l''), Machir is by far the most important. In the Song of Deborah he stands for the tribe of Manasseh (Jg 61^1, and his home at that time seems to have been W. of the Jordan (cf. v.iT). But be was especially known and remembered as the f. or conqueror of Gilead (Xu )iC'-^ 32^, Jos 171, Dt 314). Ace. to many authorities this conquest was made from W. Palestine (Smend, UWB, ed. Rielim ; Stade, (Sesch. i. p. 149 ; Budde, liicht. u. Sam. p. S4 tf. ; Moore on Jg 516 ; but O. A. Smith, Hist. Geog. p. 677 n., regards the argu- ment as inconclusive). From his pre-eminence and earlier development Machir, then, was regarded as the firstborn of Manasseh, or as the only son. In this latter scheme (1») the other clans of Alanasseh are recorded, not as descendants of ilachir simply, but also of Gilead, as though their home was E. of the Jordan. But tlie clan lezer, i.e. Abi-ezor (Gideon's clan), belonged to the district W. of the Jord.an (Jg (JU- si s'2). Tirzah, the city, a d. Zclopheliad s. Hepher (7), was likewise situated W. of tne Jordan (see Tiilzah), and Jos 1711'- plainly implies that all of the ss. Manasseh (1») except Machir dwelt W, of the Jordan. To the author of (li>) the name Gilead then either had lost its geographical meaning, or, what is more probable, hold- ing that Gilead was first conquered, as represented in the Hex., he regarded the W. Manassitesas offslioots of the E. Manassites. The genealogical scheme of (1=) (2) (3) (4) (5) (7), given in 1 Ch 714-15, is clearly different from (1"^) or (l**), although not without points of connexion. The passiige from wliieh (Ic) is derived is corrupt, and in its present state unintelligible, for- bidding any satisfactory reconstruction (Ki. ; see attempts in Be. Oe). Asriel 0^~%%). 1 Ch 7", is plainly a dittography out of the following words tj^i^* %'**). The statement that the m. of Machir was an Aranuean appears likewise in tlie LXX of Cn SU'-'. The reiirence to Uuppim and .shuppim and the sister (v.i-) is entirely obscure. In Maacah, the wife of Machir, wo may possibly see some connexion between Machirites and their neighbours, the Moacathites (see MA.\CAii). In 1 Ch '2'^ Hvzron s. Perez 8. Jtidali is represented as begetting through a d. of .Machir, Segub. who begat Jair, 'who had twenty -thr«« cities in the land of Gilead.' Segiib (^'J.-X who is not men- tioned elsewhere, probably has arisen in trunscription from Argoh (3;"iN), the district given as inhabite<l by Jair the s. Mana&svh (Dt 314). Why Hezron, a clan of Judah "(IV. 3), should be con- nected at all with Machir is entirely olw*.'ure. The statemeiil proliably has arisen through some misunderstanding
Hepher (!<») (b) may be coiineett^l with Hepher, tlie city and district mentiiiiied in Jos 121" and 1 K 41". Acconliiig to Kuenen, Zeloplnluul was originally the name of a cityO'illm. on Nu iU'i*). The Jewish law of female Inheritance is re presented OS traced to the pi-titi'>n of his daugliten* (Nu 271-11, 3t»l-l'^). The d. Tirzab, as lu^sunu-d above, is the well-known city, and nerbups the names of the others should be sought in lowiii or villages. Of the other names introduced in these list« b«vond
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what hns been mentioned we know nothing. Perhftpa Likhl I Cnfy (5) = Helek (pSi) (1^) and Aniam (C;-:k) (5)=Noah irCji^) \
8. Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, Jahdiel, 1 Ch 5-^
These are mentioned as * mighty men of valour, famoufir men,
heads of their fathers' houses,' of the half-tribe of Mana.'iseh dwelling E. of the Jordan (ref.). Nothing further of them, \ indicating when they Uved or for what they were famous, is given.
Vll.b 1, Ephraim ; :i. Shuthelah (12), Becher,
Tahan. Nii 20^.
b. Slmthelali, Ezer, Elead, Beriah, d. Sheerah, Rephah, Rcshoph (4), 1 Ch T'"'"-^.
2. Shuthelah (1): Erau, Nu '^fiS".
3. Shuthelah (1*») : Bered, Tahatk, Eleadah, TttJiatk, Znhad, Shuthelah, 1 Ch 7^'-.
4. Resheph (l**) : TeJah, Tafutn, Ladan, Ammi- hudy Elishamay Nun^ Joshua, 1 Ch 7*^''''.
The genealogy of Ephraim (!»>) (3) (4), presen-ed in 1 Ch 720-27, Is of uncertain construction. Krom the Ileb. text it is not clear whether Kzer and Klead are the ss. of Shuthelah (No. 2) (."i) or of Kpliraim; or Sheerah and Hephah, the children of Beriah or Ephraim- The latter rendering in each case, as in (!*>), is ihe hetter. In the first instance the context clearly demands \t. Of si»ecial Interest is the notice of the Blau^hter of Ezer and Elead on a cattle raid by the men of Gath (v.2i). To the older commentators, who regarded Ephraim and his children as historical individuals, this episode was dillicult of explanation, because it belonged evidently to the period nf the sojourn in Egypt. It was usually interpreted as a foray out of (Joshen (jioe. Oe.)— a^lnst the use of the word -in; 'go down," Ew. placed the event in the pre-Eg>'ptian period {Uist. i. p. Sso). Bayce refers to It as historical, and of the Egyptian period (J'atriarchal Palestitw, p. 202). There is little doubt, howe\ er, If an historical collision oetween Ephraimitic clans and clittitea underlies this notice, that the foray was from Jit. Ephraim (He.). In the original story, Ephraim mourning- (v. 22) probably was no more thought of as an individual than Rachel in Jer 31'". The ss. of Ephraim slain then were two Ei'hraimitic clans, destroyed in some Phil. war. The connexion of Beriah, another clan, with the event arose either from a play upon the word, B«.riah being regarded as the equivalent of 'in evil' (n;;^"i3 = nj/'^iaXv. 23), or, in addition to the play upon the name, since Bb^^oh is mentioned as a Benjam. family of Aijalon, who routed the inhabitants of Gath (1 Ch 8^3), 'it is jjossible that this Benjam. Beriah, having driven back Gittite mvaders, recei\ed the former home of Ezer and Elead, and thus became incor- porated into the tribe of Ephraim (Be.). We. regards the entire episode as of lat« fabrication (Ptvl. p. 214).