Were Naaman and Ard the sons or the grandsons of Benjamin?

Textual conflict

Interpretive tension

The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.

Importance

Minor

A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.

Ard and Naaman appear beside Bela as sons of Benjamin but elsewhere as Bela's sons; the tension depends on whether sons denotes immediate children.

An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.