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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — I Chronicles

Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 60,920 words · 331 reading sections

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1 Chronicles 5:6

1 Chronicles 5:6 Ver. 6. 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 Ho 1:1 but neither the name, title, time, nor tribe, agree: whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive; the same with Tiglathp…

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1 Chronicles 5:7

1 Chronicles 5:7 Ver. 7. And his brethren by their families,.... Either the brethren of Beerah, or the rest of the posterity of Reuben: (when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned;) either in the times of Jotham and Jeroboam, 1Ch 5:17 or at the time of their captivity, as in the preceding verse: [were] the…

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1 Chronicles 5:8

1 Chronicles 5:8 Ver. 8. And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel,.... The pedigree of Bela, another principal man in the tribe of Reuben, is traced up to Joel the father of Shema; the same with Shemaiah, according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, 1Ch 5:4 who dwelt in Aroer; which belonged to the tribe of…

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SECTION 64

1 Chronicles 5:9

1 Chronicles 5:9 Ver. 9. And eastward he inhabited,.... Either Bela, or the tribe of Reuben: unto the entering in of the wilderness; the wilderness of Kedemoth, which was near to Sihon king of Heshbon, whose land the Reubenites inhabited, De 2:26 from the river Euphrates; a learned man {r} thinks that this river Phr…

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SECTION 65

1 Chronicles 5:10

1 Chronicles 5:10 Ver. 10. And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites,.... Not with the Hungarians, as the Targum, a people not then in being; but the Ishmaelites, so called because they descended from Hagar {s}, Sarah's maid; the same that are placed by Pliny {t} and Ptolemy {u} in Arabia, near the Bata…

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SECTION 66

1 Chronicles 5:11

1 Chronicles 5:11 Ver. 11. And the children of Gad dwelt over against them,.... Or by them, the Reubenites; and one part of Gilead was given them between them, and the other to the half tribe of Manasseh: in the land of Bashan, unto Salcah; for though all Bashan is said to be given to the half tribe of Manasseh, De 3…

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SECTION 67

1 Chronicles 5:12

1 Chronicles 5:12 Ver. 12. Joel the chief,.... In this and the following verse are reckoned up the principal men in the tribe of Gad, and the chief of all was Joel, another from him in the tribe of Reuben, 1Ch 5:4 and Shapham the next; the second chief man, from whom, Reland {x} conjectures, Shophan, a city in the tr…

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SECTION 68

1 Chronicles 5:13

1 Chronicles 5:13 Ver. 13. And their brethren of the house of their fathers,.... Who were also men of eminence and note in them: were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Shebai, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven; so they are as here mentioned by name.…

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SECTION 69

1 Chronicles 5:14

1 Chronicles 5:14 Ver. 14. These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri,.... That is, the seven before mentioned; they were the posterity of Abihail, whose pedigree is traced from his father Huri to Buz, the intermediate progenitors being Jaroah, Gilead, Michael, Jeshishai, Jahdo.…

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SECTION 70

1 Chronicles 5:15

1 Chronicles 5:15 Ver. 15. Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers. Which Ahi was a principal man in the families the seven above men belonged to; besides them, or those three, were everyone of them heads of families.…

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SECTION 71

1 Chronicles 5:16

1 Chronicles 5:16 Ver. 16. And they dwelt in Gilead,.... In that part of it which belonged to the tribe of Gad: in Bashan, and in her towns; See Gill on "1Ch 5:11", and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders; there were two Sharons, one to the west of the land of Israel near the Mediterranean sea, which is…

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SECTION 72

1 Chronicles 5:17

1 Chronicles 5:17 Ver. 17. All these were reckoned by genealogies,.... All before mentioned: in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel; not that those two kings reigned at the same time, and one and the same reckoning is meant; but, as Dr. Lightfoot {y} observes, there were two r…

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SECTION 73

1 Chronicles 5:18

1 Chronicles 5:18 Ver. 18. The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh,.... These all joined together, living together on the one side of Jordan: of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war; strong able bodied men; and not only able to bear and…

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SECTION 74

1 Chronicles 5:19

1 Chronicles 5:19 Ver. 19. And they made war with the Hagarites,.... Before mentioned, 1Ch 5:19 with Jetur, and Nephish: with the posterity of these men, who were sons of Ishmael, Ge 25:15 and so was Nodab; perhaps the same with Kedemah, mentioned along with the other two there; so Hillerus {z} thinks. {z} Onomastic…

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SECTION 75

1 Chronicles 5:20

1 Chronicles 5:20 Ver. 20. And they were helped against them,.... The Israelites were helped against the Ishmaelites, to fight with them, and overcome them; either by their brethren of the house of Israel, as the Targum, those on this side Jordan; or rather by the Lord, to whom they cried, and who was entreated by the…

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1 Chronicles 6:1

1 Chronicles 6:1 INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 6 This chapter begins with the fathers and heads of the tribe of Levi, 1Ch 6:1, and reckons up the high priests in the line of Eleazar, to the Babylonish captivity, 1Ch 6:4 gives an account of the families of the sons of Levi, 1Ch 6:16 and of those Levites that were emplo…

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SECTION 77

1 Chronicles 6:2

1 Chronicles 6:2 Ver. 2. And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel,.... Given in the same order as in Ex 6:18, See Gill on "Ex 6:18".…

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1 Chronicles 6:3

1 Chronicles 6:3 Ver. 3. And the children of Amram, Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam,.... Very memorable persons: Aaron was the high priest, Moses the prophet and lawgiver, and Miriam a prophetess, see Mic 6:4, the sons also of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar; the two first were destroyed by fire from heaven …

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SECTION 79

1 Chronicles 6:16

1 Chronicles 6:16 Ver. 16. The sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Which is repeated from 1Ch 6:1 for the sake of their posterity, whose names are given in the three following verses, in the same manner as in Ex 6:17.…

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1 Chronicles 6:20

1 Chronicles 6:20 Ver. 20,21. Of Gershon, Libni his son,.... Whose genealogy runs thus, Jahath, called Jehiel, 1Ch 23:8. Zimmah, between whom was Shimei, 1Ch 6:42. Joah, the same with Ethan, 1Ch 6:42. Iddo, called Adaiah, 1Ch 6:41. Zerah, Jeaterai, whose name was also Ethni, 1Ch 6:41, the posterity of Shimei, the brot…

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SECTION 81

1 Chronicles 6:22

1 Chronicles 6:22 Ver. 22-28. The sons of Kohath, Amminadab,.... The same with Izhar, 1Ch 6:2 the posterity of his brethren, Amram, Hebron, and Uzziel, are omitted; and his genealogy is carried to a considerable length, for the sake of Samuel the prophet, who sprang from him: it stands thus, Korah, Assir, Elkanah, Ebi…

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SECTION 82

1 Chronicles 6:29

1 Chronicles 6:29 Ver. 29,30. The sons of Merari; Mahli,.... The posterity of his brother Mushi are omitted; his genealogy is drawn thus, Libni, Shimei, Uzza, Shimea, Haggiah, Asaiah.…

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SECTION 83

1 Chronicles 6:31

1 Chronicles 6:31 Ver. 31. And these are they,.... Who follow; the account of whom begins 1Ch 6:33, whom David set over the service of the song in the house of the Lord: whom he appointed chief musicians, and masters of the chorus, to manage and conduct that part of divine service in the sanctuary, singing the praise…

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SECTION 84

1 Chronicles 6:32

1 Chronicles 6:32 Ver. 32. And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacles of the congregation with singing,.... Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; this service they performed before the ark, which was in a tent or tabernacle David pitched for it; and which the Targum here calls the tabernacle of tim…

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1 Chronicles 6:33

1 Chronicles 6:33 Ver. 33-38. And these are they that waited with their children,.... They and their posterity, who officiated in the service of singing psalms in the sanctuary: the three heads of them were of the three families of the Levites, as follow: of the sons of the Kohathites, Heman a singer; the chief of th…

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1 Chronicles 6:39

1 Chronicles 6:39 Ver. 39-43. And his brother Asaph,.... That is, Heman's brother; so Asaph was, as he was a descendant from the same original ancestor Levi, yet in the line of Gershon; and as being of the same office, a precentor, or chief singer: who stood on his right hand; he was next to Heman; Heman stood in the…

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1 Chronicles 6:44

1 Chronicles 6:44 Ver. 44-47. And their brethren, the sons of Merari,.... Who were the brethren of the Kohathites and Gershonites, descending from the same ancestor Levi: stood on the left hand; that is, of Heman, see 1Ch 6:39, the chief of whom was Ethan, sometimes called Jeduthun, 1Ch 16:41 and often in the book of…

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1 Chronicles 6:48

1 Chronicles 6:48 Ver. 48. Their brethren also the Levites,.... Who were not skilled in singing, and employed in that service, even the rest of the Kohathites, Gershonites, and Merarites: were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God; some were porters at the gates; others had the ca…

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1 Chronicles 6:49

1 Chronicles 6:49 Ver. 49-53. But Aaron and his sons,.... Those that descended from him, though of the same tribe of Levi were all priests: and they offered upon the altar of burnt offerings; the daily sacrifice, and all the offerings of the people brought to them: and on the altar of incense; they burnt incense nig…

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1 Chronicles 6:50

1 Chronicles 6:50 Ver. 50. See Gill on "1Ch 6:49". 1 Chronicles 6:51Ver. 51. See Gill on "1Ch 6:49". 1 Chronicles 6:52Ver. 52. See Gill on "1Ch 6:49". 1 Chronicles 6:53Ver. 53. See Gill on "1Ch 6:49". 1 Chronicles 6:54Ver. 54-81. Now these are their dwelling places,.... The dwelling places of the priests and Levites, …

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1 Chronicles 7:1

1 Chronicles 7:1 INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 7 In this chapter are given the genealogies of the tribes of Issachar, 1Ch 7:1 of Benjamin, 1Ch 7:6 Naphtali, 1Ch 7:13, of Manasseh, 1Ch 7:14 of Ephraim, 1Ch 7:20 and of Asher, 1Ch 7:30, even of the chief men of them; and their numbers are reckoned as in the times of Davi…

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1 Chronicles 7:2

1 Chronicles 7:2 Ver. 2. And the sons of Tola,.... The eldest son of Issachar, whose posterity are only reckoned by name: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola; the principal man of his family: [they] were valiant men of might in their gen…

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1 Chronicles 7:3

1 Chronicles 7:3 Ver. 3. And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah,.... Including his posterity: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five; together with their father, all reckoned the sons of Uzzi: all of them chief men; in their father's house, heads of families.…

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1 Chronicles 7:4

1 Chronicles 7:4 Ver. 4. And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war,.... Companies of men of military courage and skill, who could and did go out to war upon occasion: six and thirty thousand [men]; besides the 22,600 Tolaites, 1Ch 7:2, for they had many wiv…

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1 Chronicles 7:5

1 Chronicles 7:5 Ver. 5. And their brethren among all the families of Issachar,.... As those of Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, 1Ch 7:1 were men of might; valiant and courageous: reckoned in all, by their genealogies, fourscore and seven thousand; that is, including with these those of Tola and Uzzi before given.…

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1 Chronicles 7:6

1 Chronicles 7:6 Ver. 6. The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. Benjamin had ten sons, but three only are mentioned first; the latter of these seems to be the same with Ashbel, Ge 46:21.…

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1 Chronicles 7:7

1 Chronicles 7:7 Ver. 7. And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five,.... These are thought by some to be the grandsons of Bela, because of the different names in 1Ch 8:3, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; principal men in their tribe and families, and of gr…

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1 Chronicles 7:8

1 Chronicles 7:8 Ver. 8. And the sons of Becher,.... Another son of Benjamin, 1Ch 7:6, Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth; the two last of these, according to Kimchi, gave names to two cities in Benjamin, built by them; Anathoth, the native place …

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1 Chronicles 7:9

1 Chronicles 7:9 Ver. 9. And the number of them,.... Of the posterity of the sons of Becher: after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; as they increased in succeeding ages, and at the time of David: was twenty thousand and two hundred.…

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1 Chronicles 7:10

1 Chronicles 7:10 Ver. 10. The sons also of Jediael,.... The third son of Benjamin before mentioned, 1Ch 7:6. Bilhan, including his posterity, as follows: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin; called so after his great grandfather: and Ehud; who was the second judge in Israel, Jud 3:15 and Chenaanah, and Zet…

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1 Chronicles 7:11

1 Chronicles 7:11 Ver. 11. All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, [were] seventeen thousand and two hundred [soldiers], fit to go out for war and battle. Which, with the above sums put together, make of the tribe of Benjamin, besides what follow, 59,430; who, if numbered by…

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1 Chronicles 7:12

1 Chronicles 7:12 Ver. 12. Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir,.... The same with Iri, 1Ch 7:7 so that these were not sons of Benjamin, as they seem to be, if they are the same with Muppim and Huppim in Ge 46:21 but his great-grandchildren, and are the same with Shupham and Hupham, from whom families of the t…

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1 Chronicles 7:13

1 Chronicles 7:13 Ver. 13. The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum,.... Called Shillem, Ge 46:24, the sons of Bilhah; Jacob's concubine; her grandsons; for Naphtali, the father of them, was her son; from these sprung so many families, after their names, Nu 26:48.…

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1 Chronicles 7:14

1 Chronicles 7:14 Ver. 14. The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare,.... The wife of Manasseh, as distinguished from his concubine in the next clause; though the Targum reads, in connection with that, "whom his Aramitess (or Syrian) concubine bare;'' and then adds, who also bare Machir the father of Gilead; so …

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1 Chronicles 7:15

1 Chronicles 7:15 Ver. 15. And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maachah,.... He married into the tribe of Benjamin, a sister of the persons mentioned, 1Ch 7:12 whose name was Maachah: and the name of the second was Zelophehad; the second son of Manasseh, or of his posterit…

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1 Chronicles 7:16

1 Chronicles 7:16 Ver. 16. And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh,.... He had both these sons by her: and his sons were Ulam and Rakem, that is, either the sons of Peresh or Sheresh, the nearest, as Kimchi observes.…

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1 Chronicles 7:17

1 Chronicles 7:17 Ver. 17. And the sons of Ulam: Bedan,.... See 1Sa 12:11 these were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh; that is, were of his posterity, or belonged to his family; for Ulam and Rakem were sons of a brother of Gilead, 1Ch 7:16.…

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1 Chronicles 7:18

1 Chronicles 7:18 Ver. 18. And his sister Hammoleketh,.... The sister of Gilead so named; though the Targum renders it "that reigned"; and so Kimchi, that reigned in some part of Gilead; and the Vulgate Latin version translates it, "a queen bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah"; Abiezer is the same with Jeezer, from w…

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1 Chronicles 7:19

1 Chronicles 7:19 Ver. 19. And the sons of Shemida,.... Another son of Gilead's sister, unless the same with Ishod; from him sprung the family of the Shemidaites, Nu 26:30 were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam; from Shechem came the family of the Shethemites, as from Likhi, if he is the same with Helek, as p…

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1 Chronicles 8:1

1 Chronicles 8:1 INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 8 In this chapter the genealogy of the tribe of Benjamin is reconsidered, and several of the principal men and families in it are taken notice of, which were not before; or a further account is given of them, as of the sons and grandsons of Benjamin, 1Ch 8:1, of Ehud, 1Ch…

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1 Chronicles 8:2

1 Chronicles 8:2 Ver. 2. Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. Nohah is supposed by some to be the same with Becher, 1Ch 7:6 and by others with Naaman, Ge 46:21, as Rapha, the same with Rosh there.…

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1 Chronicles 8:3

1 Chronicles 8:3 Ver. 3. The sons of Bela were Addar, and Gera, and Abihud. The first of these is thought to be the same with Ard, mentioned among the sons of Benjamin, Ge 46:21 but was one of his grandsons, see Nu 26:40 as Gera also was.…

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1 Chronicles 8:4

1 Chronicles 8:4 Ver. 4,5. And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah, and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram. These were all the sons of Bela; one of the name of Naaman is reckoned among the sons of Benjamin, Ge 46:21 and from this grandson the family of the Naamanites are named, Nu 26:40, and Ahoah is by some thought to be the…

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1 Chronicles 8:6

1 Chronicles 8:6 Ver. 6. And these are the sons of Ehud,.... Not he that was a judge in Israel, Jud 3:15 but perhaps a son of Huram the last mentioned; for not the three last are his sons, as some think, but the three following in the next verse; what follows being to be read in a parenthesis: (these are the heads of…

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1 Chronicles 8:7

1 Chronicles 8:7 Ver. 7. And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera,.... Or, to wit, Naaman, &c. so the words are to be connected with these are the sons or Ehud, in the preceding verse: he removed them; to the above place, that is, either Gera, or rather Ehud, he advised them, directed and enjoined them to go thither, as bein…

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1 Chronicles 8:8

1 Chronicles 8:8 Ver. 8. And Shaharaim,.... Who was either a son of Ahihud, or rather a brother of his, another son of Ehud: begat children in the country of Moab; whither he might go on account of the famine, as Elimelech did, Ru 1:1, after he had sent them away; which some understand of those that were removed from…

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SECTION 117

1 Chronicles 8:9

1 Chronicles 8:9 Ver. 9,10. And he begat of Hodesh his wife,.... That is, he, I say, begat, namely, Shaharaim; the Targum makes this Hodesh to be the same with Baara, called so because she was newly espoused; but wrongly: the sons begotten of her were the seven following; Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcham, Jeuz, Shachia, …

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SECTION 118

1 Chronicles 8:11

1 Chronicles 8:11 Ver. 11. And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal. Before he sent her away, or divorced her, 1Ch 8:8.…

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1 Chronicles 8:12

1 Chronicles 8:12 Ver. 12. The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed,.... Besides those in 1Ch 8:14 who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof; not Shamed, but Elpaal his father, so the Targum; and the Talmudists say {o}, these were walled cities from the days of Joshua the son of Nun, and were destroyed i…

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1 Chronicles 8:13

1 Chronicles 8:13 Ver. 13. Beriah also, and Shema,.... These were sons of Elpaal: who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon; which, though in the tribe of Dan, Jos 19:42 might afterwards come into the possession of Benjamin; or this may be another place of the same name in Benjamin; or, however, mig…

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