1 Chronicles 8:13
in 1 Chronicles 8Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod with its villages), and Beriah and Shema (who were the heads of families of the inhabitants of Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath).
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;
KJV
Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 8
Commentary
3 notes on this verseBeriah also, and Shema,.... These were sons of Elpaal: who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon; which, though in the tribe of Dan, Jos 19:42 might afterwards come into the possession of Benjamin; or this may be another place of the same name in Benjamin; or, however, might be inhabited by Benjaminites, upon the return from captivity, who descended from those men: who drove away the inhabitants of Gath; dispossessed them of their city, in revenge for what they had done to the Ephraimites, 1Ch 7:21.
This site's exposition
who drove away the inhabitants of Gath
on 1 Chronicles 8:13-27
Beriah and Shema, heads of Aijalon, carry the list's one act of war: they drove the inhabitants out of Gath, which Gill reads as payment for what Gath's neighbors had done to Ephraim at 7:21. The roll then runs the sons of Elpaal, Shimhi and Shashak through many verses of names with no further narrative, though Gill passes on a late tradition, traced to Kimchi, identifying one Eliah among them with Elijah the prophet, of the seed of Rachel. Fourteen verses carry the tribe's spread across Aijalon and its towns on the strength of one remembered clash and little else.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
), perhaps those that had slain the Ephraimites ( ch. vii. 21 ) or their posterity, by way of reprisal: and one of those that did this piece of justice was named Beriah too, that name in which the memorial of that injury was preserved. Particular notice is taken of those that dwelt in Jerusalem (
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The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְרִעָ֣ה | uveriah | and Beriah | H1283 → | 11 times |
| וָשֶׁ֔מַע | vashema' | and Shema | H8087 → | 5 times |
| הֵ֚מָּה | hemah | they | H1992 → | 553 times |
| רָאשֵׁ֣י | rashei | [were] [the] chiefs of | H7218 → | 599 times |
| הָאָב֔וֹת | haavot | the fathers | H1 → | 1212 times |
| לְיוֹשְׁבֵ֖י | leyoshevei | of [the] inhabitants of | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| אַיָּל֑וֹן | ʾaiyalon | Aijalon | H357 → | |
| הֵ֥מָּה | hemah | they | H1992 → | 553 times |
| הִבְרִ֖יחוּ | hivrichu | they put to flight | H1272 → | |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| י֥וֹשְׁבֵי | yooshevei | [the] inhabitants of | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| גַֽת׃ | gat | Gath | H1661 → | 32 times |
וּבְרִעָ֣הand Beriah
uveriahH1283 →11 times
וָשֶׁ֔מַעand Shema
vashema'H8087 →5 times
הֵ֚מָּהthey
hemahH1992 →553 times
רָאשֵׁ֣י[were] [the] chiefs of
rasheiH7218 →599 times
הָאָב֔וֹתthe fathers
haavotH1 →1212 times
לְיוֹשְׁבֵ֖יof [the] inhabitants of
leyosheveiH3427 →1079 times
אַיָּל֑וֹןAijalon
ʾaiyalonH357 →
הֵ֥מָּהthey
hemahH1992 →553 times
הִבְרִ֖יחוּthey put to flight
hivrichuH1272 →
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
י֥וֹשְׁבֵי[the] inhabitants of
yoosheveiH3427 →1079 times
גַֽת׃Gath
gatH1661 →32 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Joshua 10:12On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley…
it leads to
- Habakkuk 3:11
Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
- Isaiah 38:8
I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.
- Isaiah 60:20
Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.
- Joshua 10:13
So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of…
- Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to…
- Habakkuk 3:11
Through
1 Chronicles 4:4Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These were the descendants of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah and the father of Bethlehem.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 2:50
These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah:
- 1 Chronicles 4:18
And Mered’s wife Bithiah gave birth to Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. These were the children of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah. Mered also took a Judean wife, who gave birth to Jered…
- 1 Chronicles 4:39
and they journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, in search of pasture for their flocks.
- 1 Chronicles 2:50
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.