What Does 1 Chronicles 8:6 Mean?

(6) **And these are the sons of Ehud.**—The Authorised Version makes no distinction between this *Ehud* and *Ehud son of Gera,* the famous Benjamite judge (Judges 3:15). The difference in the Heb. is so slight, that perhaps we may assume an original identity of the two names. In that case we get a link between the *sons of Ehud* and the house of *Gera,* 1Chronicles 8:5. Others identify the present Ehud with the Abihud of 1Chronicles 8:3, which is possibly correct: (Comp. Nadab-Abinadab, Dan and Abidan, Numbers 1:11.) **These are the heads of the fathers.**—Heads of father-houses, *i.e.,* of groups of kindred families or clans. The Hebrew text of the rest of this verse, and 1Chronicles 8:7-8, is unusually obscure, partly owing to the construction, but chiefly because of the historical allusions which are no longer explicable with any certainty. Most interpreters assume a parenthesis after the words “and these are the sons of Ehud,” extending to the words “he removed them,” in 1Chronicles 8:7. **Uzza and Ahihud** are then “the sons of Ehud” referred to in 1Chronicles 8:6. **Removed them.**—Rather, *carried them captive,* or *transported them.* The same expression denotes the Babylonian exile or transportation, and was used in 1Chronicles 5:26 of the Assyrian removal of the trans-jordanic tribes.