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BELA (Person)
1. Beor’s son, a king of Edom who ruled before Israel had a king (Gn 36:31-33). Because Balaam, the pagan prophet from north Syria, also had a father named Beor (Nm 22:5), some ancients and a number of modern critical scholars have confused the Edomite Bela with Balaam.
2. Benjamin’s oldest son (Gn 46:21; 1 Chr 8:1), whose descendants were called Belaites (Nm 26:38).
3. Azaz’s son, a descendant of Reuben who lived in Gilead in Transjordan. So vast were his family’s holdings that they pastured their cattle as far east as the Euphrates River (1 Chr 5:8-9). In the reign of Saul, his family successfully held their land against Hagrite opposition.