John Gill's Exposition on 1 Chronicles 5:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Beerah his son, etc.] The last of Joel’s posterity, who, according to the Targum and other Jewish writers f40 was a prophet, and the father of Hosea, (see <280101>Hosea 1:1) but neither the name, title, time, nor tribe, agree: whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive; the same with Tiglathpileser by a transposition of letters, (<121529>2 Kings 15:29) and is read the same here in the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic versions: he [was] prince of the Reubenites; at that time; that is, Beerah was.

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