[ ¹Dan Beguiling to idolatry.
The first tribe to do so.
Hence omitted in Revelation
7:4
(compare Deuteronomy
29:18-21.
Leviticus
24:10-16.
1Kings
12:30.
2Kings
10:29).
( Brought
forward from note in verse one and Genesis
49:17.)]
30 set up. On account of this, Dan is not named in Revelation 7, and Ephraim is there merged in Joseph.
Manasseh. This word is one of the four that has a suspended letter. Here the letter (
),
nun (n),
is written partly in the line and partly above the line,
to show that originally it formed no part of the word,
but was put in to make it spell "Manasseh"
instead of "Moses".
Jonathan was the grandson of Moses
(his contemporary Phinehas,
the grandson of Aaron,
being mentioned in
20:28).
This was done for two reasons:
(1) to spare the honor of Moses' memory and name;
(2) to put the sin upon one who committed so gross a sin.
The Talmud gives this latter as the reason.
Jonathan's name is omitted in
1Chronicles
23:15, 16,
and
26:24
The Chaldee language paraphrase
says that "Shebuel",
there substituted,
is meant for Jonathan after his
repentance and restoration.
Shebuel = "he returned to God".
The Authorized Version
follows Septuagint and Chaldee
language by putting "Manasseh" in the text;
Revised Version follows Vulgate,
and those codices and early editions
which have "n" suspended,
by putting "Moses" in the text and
"Manasseh" in the margin.
( Doctor Bullinger's companion column continues on to the next verse, but is not shown here in these web-pages.)
30 set up. On account of this, Dan is not named in Revelation 7, and Ephraim is there merged in Joseph.
Manasseh. This word is one of the four that has a suspended letter. Here the letter (
),
nun (n),
is written partly in the line and partly above the line,
to show that originally it formed no part of the word,
but was put in to make it spell "Manasseh"
instead of "Moses".
Jonathan was the grandson of Moses
(his contemporary Phinehas,
the grandson of Aaron,
being mentioned in
20:28).
This was done for two reasons:
(1) to spare the honor of Moses' memory and name;
(2) to put the sin upon one who committed so gross a sin.
The Talmud gives this latter as the reason.
Jonathan's name is omitted in
1Chronicles
23:15, 16,
and
26:24
The Chaldee language paraphrase
says that "Shebuel",
there substituted,
is meant for Jonathan after his
repentance and restoration.
Shebuel = "he returned to God".
The Authorized Version
follows Septuagint and Chaldee
language by putting "Manasseh" in the text;
Revised Version follows Vulgate,
and those codices and early editions
which have "n" suspended,
by putting "Moses" in the text and
"Manasseh" in the margin.
( Doctor Bullinger's companion column continues on to the next verse, but is not shown here in these web-pages.)
