BENJAMIN. This tribe is now dealt with, and brought down to Saul and Jonathan. The date of writing is Post-Exilic. See 1 Chronicles 8:28; 1 Chronicles 9:3; 1 Chronicles 9:27, and compare with Ezr. and Nehemiah 10, which show that Benjamin was brought back to the Land after being nearly extinguished... [ Continue Reading ]
NOHAH... RAPHA. Nowhere else mentioned in O.T. Compare Genesis 46:21. Perhaps grandsons. But these names show independence of Chronicles.... [ Continue Reading ]
ADDAR. Called Ard in Genesis 46:21.Numbers 26:40. GERA. Name derived from. son of Benjamin (Genesis 46:21).... [ Continue Reading ]
GERA. Another Gera. Compare 1 Chronicles 8:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE ARE THE: or, "and these are they the". GEBA. Near Gibeah of Saul (Joshua 18:24; 1 Samuel 10:26; 1 Samuel 13:3). Compare Judges 19:12. AND. Read: "but they were carried away to Mana-hath". THEY (the Gebaites) removed. were carried away, (same word as in 1 Chronicles 5:26). The occasion is not... [ Continue Reading ]
OF MOAB. As Boaz did. THEM: i.e. his wives.... [ Continue Reading ]
HODESH: i.e. his Moabitish wife.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHAMED. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "Shemer". Compare 1 Chronicles 7:34. ONO... LOD. Mentioned only after the exile (Ezra 2:33.Nehemiah 7:37; Nehemiah 7:37). See note on 1 Chronicles 8:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BERIAH. See notes on 1 Chronicles 7:23; 1 Chronicles 7:30. AIJALON. In Joshua 19:42, it was in Dan. In Joshua 21:24 it was. Levitical city. In 2 Chronicles 28:18 it was occupied by Philistines, under Ahaz. But here occupied by Benjamites, because (1) of Dan's idolatry (see note on Genesis 49:17), a... [ Continue Reading ]
ISHMERAI. Ishmar-yah. The _Yod_. _y,_ being the abbreviation for _Yah =_ Jehovah.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEBER. Most codices, and nine early printed editions, read "Heber". Some MSS. read "Hebed".... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE DWELT. Compare 1 Chronicles 8:32; 1 Chronicles 9:34.Nehemiah 11:1. Another token of God's faithfulness to Benjamin (compare Deuteronomy 33:12), for adhering to Judah and the worship of the true God.... [ Continue Reading ]
AT GIBSON. Repeated in 1 Chronicles 9:35. FATHER. lord, chief, or ruler. Compare 1 Chronicles 9:35. Called Jehiel there.... [ Continue Reading ]
ZACHER. Supply Ellipsis thus: "and Zacher [and Mikloth]. And Mikloth", &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
NER BEGAT KISH. There are three genealogies of the house of Saul. We place the _facts,_ (1) that persons often had two names (1 Chronicles 8:34.Judges 6:32, &c), and (2) that the same name recurs in the same family, against the _assumption_ that the opposite is the case. It is this assumption which... [ Continue Reading ]
MERIB-BAAL. Another name by which Mephi-bosheth was known. Compare 2 Samuel 2:8; 2 Samuel 4:4. See note on 1 Chronicles 8:33 above. The addition "bosheth" (= shame) came to be substituted for "Baal" as the latter word became associated with idolatry. Compare Judges 6:32 with 2 Samuel 11:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
BOCHERU. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "his firstborn" (_bekhoro_).... [ Continue Reading ]
WERE. became. MIGHTY MEN. Hebrew. _gibbor._ App-14. ARCHERS. Compare 2 Chronicles 14:8.... [ Continue Reading ]