6 Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
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Beerah his son - After their separation from the house of David the ten tribes continued to have princes of the tribes; and this continued till the time that Tiglath-pileser carried them captives into Assyria. At that time Beerah was their prince or chief; and with him this species of dominion or precedency terminated. According to the Targum, Beerah was the same as Baruch the prophet.
Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria (c) carried away [captive]: he [was] prince of the Reubenites.
(c) That is, in the time of Uzziah king of Israel, (2-Kings 15:23).
Beerah his son,.... The last of Joel's posterity, who, according to the Targum and other Jewish writers (q) was a prophet, and the father of Hosea, see Hosea 1:1 but neither the name, title, time, nor tribe, agree:
whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive; the same with Tiglathpileser by a transposition of letters, 2-Kings 15:29 and is read the same here in the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic versions:
he was prince of the Reubenites; at that time; that is, Beerah was.
(q) Aben Ezra in Hosea. i. 1. Pesikta apud Abarbinel. in ib.
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