Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan - probably from Shaalbin, or Shaalabbin (a city of foxes), in the tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:42; Judges 1:35; 1 Kings 4:9). Instead of "the sons of Jashen, Jonathan," the parallel list (1 Chronicles 11:34) has "the sons of Hashem the Gizonite," and "Jonathan" stands in another connection. [The Septuagint has huioi Asan.] The disorderly state of the list in this passage Kennicott ('Dissertation,' 1:, pp. 201-203) has proposed to rectify by reading in both places, 'Gouni, of the sons of Hashem; Jonathan, the son of Shamha the Hararite.' This reading rests on the Alexandrine version of the passage in Chronicles. [Bertheau ('Chronik.,' p. 134) thinks that bªneey (H1121) has been introduced into the text by a copyist, through an inadvertent repetition of the last letters of the word that precedes, ha-Sha`alboniy (H8170); so that the text should read only, 'Hashem the Gizonite.']