1 Chronicles 9:34,35 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

These dwelt at Jerusalem Upon their return from Babylon they were not suffered to choose their habitations in the country, as others were, but were obliged to settle themselves at Jerusalem, that they might constantly attend upon God's service there. Whose wife's name was Maachah In this and the following verses he repeats Saul's genealogy, that he might make way for the following history.

1 Chronicles 9:34-35

34 These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.

35 And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah: