| I Chronicles 5:2
| But of the race of Juda, who was the strongest among his brethren, came the princes: but the first birth-right was accounted to Joseph.)
| Accounted to Joseph, viz., as to the double portion, which belonged to the first-born: but the princely dignity was given to Juda, and the priesthood to Levi. (Challoner) --- Yet it is not certain that the latter dignity formed a part of the birth-right, (Genesis 25:31.) and the author takes no notice of it. (Calmet) --- The double portion seems to have been all the privilege, Deuteronomy 21:17. Septuagint, "the blessing or gift was Joseph's." Hebrew also does not specify princes, but "the leader," (Haydock) the Messias, (Syriac, etc.) and kings, from David till the captivity. (Calmet) (Genesis 49:4.) (Worthington)
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