John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 22:24

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, etc.] Not an harlot, but a secondary wife, who was under the proper and lawful wife, and a sort of a head servant in the family, and chiefly kept for the procreation of children; which was not thought either unlawful or dishonourable in those times such as was Hagar in Abraham’s family: she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah, of whom we have no account elsewhere; only it may be observed, that here Maachah is the name of a man, which sometimes is given to a woman, (<111513>1 Kings 15:13).

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