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1 Chronicles 8:12

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The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed,.... Besides those in 1 Chronicles 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 in the days of the concubine in Gibea, and Elpaal...

1 Chronicles 8:13

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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, Joshua 19:42 might afterwards come into the possession of Benjamin; or this may be another place of the same name in Benjamin; or, however, might be inhabited by Benjaminites, upon the return from...

1 Chronicles 8:19

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Ver. 19-21. And Jakim,.... With all the rest in these verses, namely, Zichri, Zabdi, Elienai, Zilthai, Eliel, Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath, were the sons of Shimhi, the same with Shema brother of Beriah, and son of Elpaal, 1 Chronicles 8:13.

1 Chronicles 8:22

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Ver. 22-25. And Ishpan, and Heber,.... And all that follow to the end of these verses, Eliel, Abdon, Zichri, Hanan, Hananiah, Elam, Antothijah, Iphedeiah, and Penuel, were the sons of Shashak, another son of Elpaal, 1 Chronicles 8:14.

1 Chronicles 8:26

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Ver. 26,27. And Shamsherai,.... Who, with those next mentioned, Shehariah, Athaliah, Jaresiah, Eliah, and Zichri, [were the sons of] Jeroham, who perhaps is the same with Jerimoth, another son of Elpaal, 1 Chronicles 8:14 who makes a considerable figure in this genealogy. Kimchi observes that it is a tradition (q) that this Eliah is Elijah the...

1 Chronicles 8:28

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These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief [men],.... All from 1 Chronicles 8:14, the sons of Elpaal and their sons: these dwelt in Jerusalem; part of which always belonged to the tribe of Benjamin, see Joshua 15:63.

1 Chronicles 8:29

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And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon,.... The builder of the city, and prince of the inhabitants of it, which was in the tribe of Benjamin, Joshua 18:25 whose name was Jehiel, 1 Chronicles 9:35, (whose wife's name was Maachah;) of which name were many, see 1 Chronicles 2:48.

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