1 Chronicles 7:13
Hebrew Text— 1 Chronicles 7:13The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.
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Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.
The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.
of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the east country.
Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.
Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”
She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.
Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.
This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.
Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”
Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
About Naphtali he said, “Naphtali, satisfied with favor, full of Yahweh’s blessing, Possess the west and the south.”
Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong.”
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Of Naphtali: one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.