John Gill's Exposition on 1 Chronicles 12:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty, etc.] That came with him, and he had the command of; this man was of Gibeon, another city in the tribe of Benjamin, (<061825>Joshua 18:25) and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad, the Gederathite; one of Gederah, a city in the tribe of Judah, perhaps on the borders of that and Benjamin; Joram speaks of it as belonging to the country of the city Aelia or Jerusalem.

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