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 induced to settle there too, which it seems few were willing to do, because it was the post of danger. Many great and mighty nations were then upon earth, and many illustrious men in them, whose names are buried in perpetual oblivion, while the names of multitudes of the Israel of God are here carefully preserved in everlasting remembrance: a figure of God's writing the names of his spiritual Israel in the Lamb's book of life.