Shushan eduth (Hastings' Dictionary)

See Psalms, p. 155*. SHUTHELAH {nh:^>a; B SoirrdXa in Numbers, lijiBiXaB in 1 Chronicles ; A BuirovaaKa. and 9oi>- aoKa in Numbers, ^utidXa and '^uBiXe in 1 Chron- icles ; Vulg. Siit/iala ; gentilic name Shuthelah- ites "n^fv'C ; B 6 -om-aXael, A 6 Qoi'aaXal). — In Nu •2(335-37 (psj Shuthelah, Becher, and Tahan are given as the clans of Ephraim, and Eran as a 'son' or subdivision of Shuthelah. In the LXX Becher is omitted, Tahan becomes Tanach, and Eran (pj?) becomes Eden (pv).

The parallel passage 1 Ch yjo-as i^g^g been variously altered and expanded ; instead of a Ii.st of three co-ordinate el.ans and one subdivision, MT has a genealogj' beginning with Ephniim and extending to Joshua, into which is inserted an episode concerning certain descendants of Ephraim (for which see Beeiah). Instead of Shutiielah, Becher, and Tahan as clans of Epliraim we have Shuthelah as the son, Bered the grand- son, Tahath the great-giandson of Ephraim.

As the genealogy proceeds the names repeat them- selves. There is a second Shuthelah, and tlie 'and Telali ' (nSni) of v." is probably a tor.so of a third. Tahath occurs again in v.*, and Talian of v.^ is a variant of Tahath. Eleadah and Elead (v.™'-) are variants of the same name ; Zabad is a variant of 'and Bered.' Ladan (p>'^) may be a variant of Elead (lySx), and also represent the 'to Eran' (py'7) of Numbers. Thus in r." 'Shuthelah. . Ele.adah,' (v.-'»') '[Tahath] . . Elead,' (v.'

^') '[Shu]T[li]elah . . Ladan,' we seem to have three versions of the same genealogy variously supple- mented, all three, perhaps, ultimately based on Nu 20'"'"'', combined with some other source, in which Ezer and Elead were subdivisions of the clan Shuthelah. Cf. Genealogy, VII. 4. LXX B has for v.a>f- 'And the sons of Ephraim: Sothalath. The 801)8 of Laiula. Noomc his son, Zabed his son. the nion of Guth,' etc.

The oinis44ioiis may he due to tlie earelessiiess of scribes, but it is also possilile that the nanus oiuitlerl by L,\.\ were a very late addition to MT. W. 11. BEN'NE'I'T.