Went in, i.e. lay with her, as that phrase is commonly used, as Genesis 4:1, Genesis 6:4. The father of Gilead; of a man so called. Or if Gilead be the name of that known country, father is put for head or governor, as it is used 1 Samuel 24:11 2 Kings 5:13, 2 Kings 16:7 Isaiah 22:21; or for protector or curator, as father is used Job 29:16 Jeremiah 2:27 Lamentations 5:3; this man being a man of noted valour, and the great champion in those parts. Whom, he married, Heb. and he took her, to wit, to wife. Or, after he had taken her; for so the particle vau is used, as hath been formerly noted. When he was threescore years old, Heb. and he was, to wit, when he went in unto her, or when he married her.

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