Neaman, Ahoah, And Ger11 of vers. 4, 5); e.nd not elsewhere ree.d. And even if it were on finAlly thAt after the removing "he" had ot~er groun~ possible to identify the person two fresh aone, Uzzo. e.nd Ahihud. with the Ab1el of 1 Sam. ix. 1 and xiv. 51, it Ver. 8.-She.he.raim. It he.a been proposed, is not possible to identify the names. Com- in the utter obscurity here, to e.dd this no.me pare the similar remarkable omission of the e.s II third to Uzza. and Ahihud, Thie may name '?f ~he "father of Gibea" (eh. ii. 4!)), be e. way out, but if so, instead of repeating an om1ss10n to be filled very possibly by "and Suaho.re.im," it might be more no.turo.l this so.me name Jehiel. t-0 keep the former enigmatic nomiuo.tive Vere. 30, 31.-These verses contain the and object to begat, whether Ehud or Gero.. names of eight sons of Jehiel instead of the There can be little doubt tho.t e. copyist's ten of eh. ix. 36, 37. Both of the missin"' error ha.a given WI them (ci;,tt) in place of names, however (viz. Ner after Beal and ntt, in the latter part of this verse, before Mi/doth after Zecher), are introdu~d in tlie names of the wives. The sentence then verses immediately succeeding, where their would translate, "e.fter his sending 11we.y sons are spoken of. One name, Zacher also [whether by divorce or not] Hushim e.nd is spelt es Zecharieh in eh. ix. 37. 'noth Bao.re. his wives." these passages agree in representing N er a.a Vers. 9-11.-These verses give seven un- the grandfather of Saul. Not so the two known sons of Ehud, Gero, or Sha.hara.im, passages in Samuel (ix. 1; xiv. 51), the first os the case may be, by the wife Rodesh, of which writes .Abiel in the place of the whom one would have been glad to identify gro.~dfether instead of great-grandfather, with Be.ore, o.nd two unknown sons of the which, however, ne.ed occasion little diffi- wife Rush.im. culty ; e.nd the second of which would Vera. 12-28.-One of the sons of this lest- cert1dnly allow N er to be grandfather to named wife, Hushim, was named Elpaal. Se.ul, but se= to call him uncle. Even From ver. 12 to ver. 28 we ha'l'e e. numerous ~h~n, if we accept what the passage a.Hows, list of his descendants, evidently in different 1t 1s somewhat remarkable that in the next degrees of relntion~hip, but with the thread verse N er should be signalized e.s father of picked up apparently several times, in the Abner rather than of Kish-a difficulty, persons of the first-mentioned "sons," viz. however, much less considerable if we o.cccpt the five, Eber, Misham, Shamed, Beriah, the suggestion (see' Speaker's Commentary ' Shema (ae" vers. 16, 18, 21, 25, 27). in lac.) to tre.nsle.te ver. 51 thus, by the sub- Ver. 12.-0no and Lod. These places ore stitution of the word "sous" for " son : " n_ot mentioned_ in. Joshua as originally e.s- "And Kish the father of Saul, and Ner the s1gned to BenJamrn. They were obtained father of Aimer, were sons of Abiel." It or "built" afterwards. They are first men- must be remembered ot the same time that tioned in this passage, afterwards in Ezra. ii. this is not equivalent to saying that they 3_3; Neh. vi. 2; vii. 37; xi. 36. Lod is, with were necessarily brothers, but only descend- httle doubt, the Lydde. of Acts ix. 82. ants of the chief of the family, of tho Ver. 18.-A.ije.lon. A similar kind of his- Deme.rch or Phyluroh under mention iu the tory belongs to this place. It wae nssigned genealogy. to Dan (Josh. xix. 40-48). Unsubdued by Vars. 33, 84.-The number of Snul's them (Judg. i. 34-86), the Ephreimites children was certainly nine. In e.dclition lo possessed it awhile (eh. vi. 47-49), until it the four (1 Sam. xxx.i. 2) mentioned hero, oume to be more like the common property there WO.ij Ishui, probably stcrnding second ?r care of Denjnmin e.nd Judah, situated as (l Sam. xiv. 49), nnd there were two it wns on their boundary line (1 Sam. xiv. daughters, Merab anrl l\Iichal (1 Sam. xiv. 31; 2 Chron. xi. 10; :uviii. 18). 49), end there were two sons by Rizpah (2 Y?r. 28.-Theee dwelt in J'el'118e.lem (Josh. Sam. xxi. 8), nomad Armoni and Mcphi- xvm. 28; eh. ix. 2-9; Neh. xi. 1-4). hosheth. Esh-be.e.l; the same with Ishbo- sheth (2 Sum. ii. 8; iii. 7-14; iv. 4-12). _Yers. 2?-40.-These verses are occupied Merib-bae.l; the so.me with Mephiboshet1' with the 1mmedie.te ancestors e.nd posterity (2 Som. ix. 12). Jllioe.h is, therd'ure, tho of_So.ul. And apparently the so.me aocount, great-grandson of Saul. ~mus some of its deficiencies, is repeated Vor. 35.-Te.rea; spelt Tnhreo. in ver. 41 In the next chapter, vere. 85-44. The two of next chapter. .Ahaz, tho last of the four m~y be token together here, e.nd the latter ~u~es contaiue~ in this verse, is supplied in will help the interpretation of the former. 1tohcs, Autl10r1zed Version, next chapter, Ver. 29.-The father-i.e. the chief-of vor. 41. Gibeon. (For Gibeon, see Josh. ix. 3, 7-18; . Ver. 86.-J'ehoe.de.h. Tho parallel passage X. 2; ii. 19; Neh. vii. 25; iii. 7.) The rn next chap1er (vor. 42) hos Jara/1; hut father of Giheon (eh. ix. 85) was Jehiel somo mnnuscr1pts hove Jahda/1 (:i:JI' ), which (S!l'W ; Chelhiv spells with vau; not SN•n• comes very near our Jchoodnh • (;,;111,.,;). eh. xv. 24). Of Jehiel Ly U1ill name vi~ d.~ Zimri It is possible tho.t this Zimri way llO THE FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. [cH. vm.1-40.
righl.ly be idontified with tho usurper Zimri be reached, therofore, who was thirteenth of 1 Kings xvi. 9-20. from David. The tablo of next oho.pter Ver. 37.-Rapha. This name appears as stops with the name Azel (ix. 44), and Repltaiah in next chapter (ver. 43). wears tho appearo.nce of having just missed Vers. 38-40.-The genealogy runs on the last two verses of this chapter. from Miooh to Ul,am with nothing special to Ver. 39.-The name Ulam is found also remark upon. Ula.m is twelfth from Saul, omong the descendants of Gileo.d, grondson while bis" sons imd sons' sons" (,·er. 40) of Mo.nosseh (oh. vii. 17). are spoken of. The time of Hezekio.h must