“ Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal; ”
PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). Genealogical Lists, together with Geographical and Historical Notes. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogi...
Ishmerai . Ishmar-yah. The Yod . y, being the abbreviation for Yah = Jehovah.
Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth, No JFB commentary on these verses.
Genealogies (continued) This chapter contains a second account of the descendants of Benjamin, and traces the ancestors and descendants of Saul.
(17-18) Seven sons of Elpaal.
This whole chapter constitutes a fuller account of the house of Benjamin. It seems to be a collection of names and very little more. Among them, however, after the name of the founder, Benjamin, two...
I see no cause for interruption in the catalogue of the Benjamites, from the beginning of the chapter to the end, and therefore have made none. One of two general observations are all that seem to pr...
1 Chronicles 8:17 .
Genealogies. B. C. 1660. 1 Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Ah...
No text from Poole on this verse.
CRITICAL NOTES.] Benjamin , son of Bilhan ( 1 Chronicles 7:10 ), great-grandson of son of Jacob. Posterity given on account of history of Saul. This tribe remained faithful during the revolt of the...
1 Chronicles 8:1 . Benjamin, whose posterity are here copiously recorded, because of Saul's family; because they remained in the kingdom of Judah after the secession of the ten tribes, and because...
Now Benjamin begat Bela his first-born Readings between the lines I. That alliances often end in entanglements and entail unconsidered consequences. Shaharaim went into Moab and there married...
EXPOSITION This chapter carries us back to the tribe of Benjamin, partly dealt with already ( 1 Chronicles 7:6-13 ). The tribe is reverted to for the same kind of reason that called for our 1 C...
The Line of the Tribe of Benjamin
1 Chronicles 8:11 ; Genesis 10:29