John Gill's Exposition on 1 Chronicles 8:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And these are the sons of Ehud, etc.] Not he that was a judge in Israel, (<070315>Judges 3:15) but perhaps a son of Huram the last mentioned; for not the three last are his sons, as some think, but the three following in the next verse; what follows being to be read in a parenthesis: (these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba;) a city in the tribe of Benjamin, (<061824>Joshua 18:24) namely, those sons of Ehud, after mentioned, were principal men in that tribe, and chief of the inhabitants of the city of Geba: and they removed them to Manahath; the name of a country referred to in (<130252>1 Chronicles 2:52,54) according to Jarchi, which was in the tribe of Judah; Geba being too small, either the inhabitants of Geba removed them, or they removed themselves, or their fathers removed them, (<130807>1 Chronicles 8:7), or it may be read impersonally, they were removed thither for the sake of a better habitation; the Targum adds, “to the land of the house of Esau,” to Edom; which is not likely.

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