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Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 8:29
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C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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\_ - Ch1 8:29-38 recur in Ch1 9:35-44 (see on that passage). Ch1 8:29-32 The ancestors of Saul. They dwelt mainly in Gibeon, but a branch of them were settled in Jerusalem, Ch1 8:32.f. In Gibeon, now El Jib, two hours north-west from Jerusalem (see on Jos 9:3), dwelt the father of Gibeon, with his wife and his sons. The plural ישׁבוּ is used because there dwelt there, besides the father of Gibeon, also his wife and his sons. The father, i.e., the lord and possessor of Gibeon, was called, according to Ch1 9:35, Jehiel (יעיאל, Keth. יעואל), and his wife Maachah, a not uncommon female name (see on Ch1 2:48). The descent of Jehiel from Benjamin is not given. In Ch1 8:30 eight names are given as those of his sons, while in Ch1 9:36. ten are mentioned, the latter statement being correct; for a comparison of the two passages shows that in our verse two names have been dropped out, - Ner between Baal and Nadab, and Mikloth at the end, which must have originally stood in our register also, - for in Ch1 8:32, Ch1 8:33 their descendants are mentioned. זכר is called in Ch1 9:37 זכריה. These names are evidently those of actual sons of Jehiel who were progenitors of fathers'-houses (groups of related households), but in the case of only two is the race descended from these further noticed. In Ch1 8:32 we have that of the youngest Mikloth, who begat Shimeah, called in Ch1 9:38 Shimeam. These also (viz., Shimeah and his family) dwelt in Jerusalem אחיהם נגד, "before their brethren," i.e., over against them, and אחיהם עם, "with their brethren." The brethren are the other Benjamites in the first clause, those dwelling outside of Jerusalem and inhabiting the neighbouring country as far as Gibeon ( Ch1 8:30); in the second, those dwelling in Jerusalem ( Ch1 8:28). From this it is clear that of the descendants of Abi-Gibeon only that branch which was descended from Mikloth went to Jerusalem. Ch1 8:33 The family of Ner. Ner begat Kish, and Kish Saul. According to Sa1 9:1 and Sa1 14:51, Kish was a son of Abiel. this statement, on account of which Bertheau proposes to make alterations in the text, may be reconciled with that in our verses, by the simple supposition that in our verse intermediate names mentioned in Sa1 9:1, and probably others besides, are passed over, and Ner the son of Abi-Gibeon is named only because he was the progenitor of the line by which Saul was descended from him. Saul (שׁאוּל) is King Saul. Only three of his four sons, Sa1 14:49, are mentioned-those, namely, who fell with him in the battle against the Philistines, Sa1 31:2. The second is called, in Sa1 14:49, Ishui, but in Sa1 31:2 Abinadab, as in our register, whence we gather that Ishui is another name for Abinadab. The fourth, Eshbaal, is the same who is called in Sa2 2:8, and elsewhere, Ishbosheth, who was set up as king in opposition to David by Abner (see on Sa2 2:8). Ch1 8:34-39 Jonathan's sons and grandsons. His son is called here and in Ch1 9:40 Meribbaal, while in Sa2 4:4; Sa2 9:6; Sa2 16:1., Sa2 19:25, he is called Mephibosheth, because the name "striver with Baal" has been changed into מפיבשׁת, exterminans idolum. This Meribbaal, who was lame in his feet (cf. Sa2 4:4), had a son Micha (מיכה, in Sa2 9:12 written מיכא), of whom came a numerous race. He had four sons ( Ch1 8:35), and the family of the last-named of these (Ahaz) is traced down, in Ch1 8:36-40, through ten generations to the great-grandson of Eshek. First it is traced from Ahaz to Alemeth ( Ch1 8:36); then t…
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