1 Chronicles 8:13

“Beriah also, and Shema, etc.] These were sons of Elpaal: who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon; which, though in the tribe of Dan, (<061942>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 captivity, who descended from those men: who drove away the inhabitants of Gath; dispossessed them of their city, in revenge for what they had done to the Ephraimites, (<130721>1 Chronicles 7:21).”

“Shema: Ch1 8:21, Shimhi the fathers: Ch1 2:49, Ch1 2:50, Ch1 2:52, Ch1 4:4 Aijalon: Jos 19:42, Ajalon 1 Chronicles 8:16”

“Heads of fathers'-houses of the tribe of Benjamin, who dwelt partly in Aijalon ( Ch1 8:13) and partly in Jerusalem. - Their connection with the heads of fathers'-houses already mentioned is not clear. The names ושׁמע בּריעה might be taken fore a fuller enumeration of the sons of Elpaal ( Ch1 8:12), were it not that the names enumerated from Ch1 8:14 or 15 onwards, are at the end of Ch1 8:16 said to be those of sons of Beriah; whence we must conclude that with וּבריעה, Ch1 8:13, a new list of heads of Benjamite fathers'-houses begins. This view is supported by the fact that the names from Ch1 8:14 or Ch1 8:15 to Ch1 8:27 are divided into five groups of families: the sons of Beriah ( Ch1…”