King James Version
What Does 1 Chronicles 8:12 Mean?
“The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:”
Context
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And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These were his sons, heads of the fathers.
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And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.
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The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:
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Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:
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And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(12) **Shamer,** or *Shemer,* occurred in 1Chronicles 7:34 as a clan of Asher.
**Who built.Ono and Lod**. . . .—Literally, *he built Ono and Lod and her daughters.* The clause is a parenthesis referring to Shemer.
**Ono,** now *Kefr Auna,* recurs in Ezra 2:33, Nehemiah 7:37; Nehemiah 11:35, but is not found elsewhere in the Old Testament. It is always coupled with Lod, and must have been near it.
**Lod,** the Lydda of Acts 9:32, is now the village of *Ludd,* north of Ramleh, between Jaffa and Jerusalem.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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