1 Chronicles 8:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Shamer, or Shemer, occurred in 1 Chronicles 7:34 as a clan of Asher.

Who built.Ono and Lod.... — Literally, he built Ono and Lod and her daughters. The clause is a parenthesis referring to Shemer.

Ono, now Kefr Auna, recurs in Ezra 2:33; Nehemiah 7:37; Nehemiah 11:35, but is not found elsewhere in the Old Testament. It is always coupled with Lod, and must have been near it.

Lod, the Lydda of Acts 9:32, is now the village of Ludd, north of Ramleh, between Jaffa and Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 8:12

12 The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof: