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One would have expected Ephraim and HalfManasseh on the West Bank to be similarly immediately associated with Levi as Half-Manasseh is on the East Bank. But, if the MT paragraphing is carefully followed, the disorder is less than at first appears and principally concerns the position of Benjamin. The major paragraph marker after Levi is not, in fact, reached until the end of Issachar, with the result that Issachar is bound up closely with Levi (in the standard genealogy Issachar is the brother next to Levi once Judah has been removed to first position, 1 Chron.
Perhaps the location here, between the sons of the main wives, is in some kind of compensation for that omission. 1-2 LEAH BILHAH (Dan) RACHEL i BILHAH (Naphtali) ZILPAH But, if C thus lists the twelve sons of Israel more or less in conventional order in 1 Chron. 1-2, when he turns thereafter to deal with the tribes individually in 1 Chron. 40, he follows his own scheme, which begins with Judah, ends with Benjamin, and places Levi in the centre: 1 Chronicles 1-2 Chronicles 9 38 Judah Simeon Reuben (1 Chron.
1). For his information for this line of descent from Ram to David in 1 Chron. 19b22. He makes two additions to it, however. At the end of v. 10 he alludes to Num. 3 where Nahshon is identified as 'prince of the sons of Judah'. The rule of the house of David is, thus, a resumption of the pre-eminent role of David's ancestor, Nahshon, in Judah, and, indeed, in the nation as a whole, at the time of the Exodus and the wilderness wandering. Nahshon's sister, Elizabeth, was Aaron's wife (Exod. 23); in the camp of the Israelites Nahshon had the most honorific 46 1 Chronicles 1-2 Chronicles 9 place of all at the east of the Tent of Meeting (Num.