And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife’s name was Maachah:
And in Gibeon there dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife’s name was Maacah;
And in Gibeon dwelt hath the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, and the name of his wife is Maachah;
And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, and his wife's name was Maachah.
1 Chronicles — A post-exilic retelling of Israel's story through the Davidic line — genealogies from Adam to Saul, then David's reign reframed around temple preparation. The priestly history that answers the exile's question: what does it mean to return?
Voices3
And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon,.... Whose name is here mentioned, which is not in 1Ch 8:29. Jehiel: whose wife's name was Maachah; as there, but here called his sister, as a wife sometimes is, Gen 20:2. From hence to the end of the chapter is a repetition of the ancestors and posterity of Saul king of Israel; which is made to lead on to and connect the following history of the kings of Judah, begun in this book, and carried on in the next unto the Babylonish captivity, see 1Ch 8:29, and the notes there.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
An almost exact repetition of 1Ch 8:29-38; and probably intentionally made by the author. In order to connect the genealogical section of his work with the historical, he re-introduces the genealogy of the person with whose death his historical section opens.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
Let that judgment never be forgotten, but ever be remembered, for warning to posterity to take heed of those sins that brought it upon them. Whenever we speak of any calamity that has befallen us, it is good to add this, "it was for my transgression," that God may be justified and clear when he judges.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk1
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
1 Chronicles 2:45The son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
leads to
Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches4
Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah,
The son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.
These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah:
