1 Chronicles 8:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem. ”

• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  These dwelt in Jerusalem - Jerusalem was partly within the limits of the tribe of Benjamin Joshua 18:28 ; but we do not hear of Benjamites inhabiting it until after the return from the captivity...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  These [were] heads of the (e) fathers, by their generations, chief [men]. These dwelt in Jerusalem. (e) The chief of the tribe of Benjamin, who dwelt in Jerusalem.

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  These dwelt. Compare 1 Chronicles 8:32 ; 1 Chronicles 9:34 . Nehemiah 11:1-4 . Another token of God's faithfulness to Benjamin (compare Deuteronomy 33:12 ), for adhering to Judah and the worship...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men . These dwelt in Jerusalem. These were heads of the fathers - On the following verses Dr. Kennicott has labored hard to restore the...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem. These dwelt in Jerusalem. The ordinary and stated inhabitants of Jerusalem were Judahites, Benjamit...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Genealogies (continued) This chapter contains a second account of the descendants of Benjamin, and traces the ancestors and descendants of Saul.

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  T hese were... chief men. — These were: chiefs of clans; according to their birth-rolls, chiefs. All the names from 1 Chronicles 8:14 to 1 Chronicles 8:27 are included in this summation. The r...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief [men] ,.... All from 1 Chronicles 8:14 , the sons of Elpaal and their sons: these dwelt in Jerusalem ; part of which always belonged t...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Heads of the fathers, &c: these dwelt at Jerusalem All these named from 1Ch 8:14 to this place. Particular notice is taken of these, that others, at their return from captivity, might be induce...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Genealogies. B. C. 1660.       1 Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Ah...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  All these named from 1 Chronicles 8:14 , to this place.

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Line of the Tribe of Benjamin

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Joshua 15:63 ; Joshua 18:28 ; Judges 1:21 ; Nehemiah 11:1 ; Nehemiah 11:7-9 ; Psalms 125:2

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• 1 Chronicles 8:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Heads of the fathers, &c. — Particular notice is taken of these, that others, at their return from captivity, might be induced to settle there too, which it seems few were willing to do, becaus...

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