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John Gill's Exposition on 1 Chronicles 8:13

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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).
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