NOW BENJAMIN, etc.] The names of Benjamin's descendants are repeated (with some variants) from 1 Chronicles 7:7., in order to lead up to the mention of Saul (1 Chronicles 8:33), the predecessor of David (1 Chronicles 10:14), whose history forms the chief subject of this book.... [ Continue Reading ]
GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) This chapter contains a second account of the descendants of Benjamin, and traces the ancestors and descendants of Saul.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ABIHUD] perhaps to be corrected to 'father (Heb. _Abi_) of Ehud': see 1 Chronicles 8:6 and Judges 3:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
REMOVED] RV 'carried them captive': and so in 1 Chronicles 8:7. The occasion is not known.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER HE HAD, etc.] RM 'after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.'... [ Continue Reading ]
ONO AND LOD] These towns elsewhere are mentioned only in post-exilic times (Ezra 2:33), so that the personal or family names in these vv. probably belong to that period. Benjamites are expressly mentioned in 1 Chronicles 9:3; Nehemiah 11:4, as being among those who returned from the captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FATHER OF GIBEON] the 'JEHIEL' of 1 Chronicles 9:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
NER BEGAT KISH] Ner and Kish were brothers (1 Chronicles 9:36), so that the text should be corrected to 'Ner begat Abner and Kish begat Saul': cp. 1 Samuel 14 ESHBAAL] the 'Ish-bosheth' of 2 Samuel 2:8. The title 'Baal,' meaning 'lord' or 'possessor,' was at first used of Jehovah as well as of other... [ Continue Reading ]
MERIBBAAL] i.e. Mephibosheth: see on 1 Chronicles 8:33.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARCHERS] for the skill of Benjamites with the bow see 2 Chronicles 14:8.... [ Continue Reading ]