King James Version
What Does 1 Chronicles 8:29 Mean?
“And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon ; whose wife's name was Maachah: father: called Jehiel,IChro.9.35”
Context
27
And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.
28
These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.
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And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon ; whose wife's name was Maachah: father: called Jehiel,IChro.9.35
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And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,
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And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher. Zacher: or, Zechariah.IChr.9.37
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers**THE FAMILIES OF GIBEON, ESPECIALLY THE ROYAL HOUSE OF SAUL**
(1Chronicles 8:29-40).
1Chronicles 8:29-38 recur at 1Chronicles 9:35-44.
(29) **At Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon.**—His name (Jehiel) has been accidentally omitted. (See 1Chronicles 9:35.) The verb *dwelt* is plural, “they dwelt;” a sufficient indication that the “father of Gibeon” merely represents the original population of that place under a collective name. Maachah would be a place in the neighbourhood.
**Gibeon.**—Now *el-Jib,* about eight miles north-west of Jerusalem.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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