1 Chronicles 9:35
in 1 Chronicles 9Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And in Gibeon there dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife’s name was Maacah;
KJV
And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife’s name was Maachah:
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 9
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd 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.
This site's exposition
the father of Gibeon
on 1 Chronicles 9:35-44
Saul's line repeats here nearly word for word from 8:29-38, and the repetition is deliberate: the Chronicler closes his genealogies by picking up the very family whose death opens the narrative history in chapter 10, Barnes reading the doubling as the seam joining the book's two halves together. The line runs generations past Jonathan through Merib-baal, called Mephibosheth in Samuel, and Micah down to Azel's six sons, keeping a defeated dynasty's descendants on record long after the kingdom passed to David's house. Saul receives here what Chronicles gives every line it names, a place kept in the record, before chapter 10 gives him the verdict Samuel had left unstated.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
Whose wife’s name was Maachah - Here our translators have departed from the original, for the word is אחתו achotho, his Sister; but the Vulgate, Septuagint, Syriac, Arabic, and Chaldee, have Wife; to which may be added 1Ch 8:29, the parallel place. Almost all the early editions, as well as the MS. editions, have the same reading. Of all the Polyglots the Complutensian alone has אשתו ishto, his Wife. His wife is the reading also of Vatablus’s Polyglot, but in the margin he observes that other copies have his sister. There is most certainly a fault somewhere, for Maachah could not be both the sister and wife of Jehiel. Whether, therefore, 1Ch 8:29 has been altered from this, or this altered from that, who can tell? A single letter makes the whole difference: if the word be written with ח cheth, it is Sister; if with ש shin, it is Wife. The latter is most probably the true reading. It is so in three very ancient MSS. in my own possession.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְגִבְע֛וֹן | uvegivon | and in Gibeon | H1391 → | 38 times |
| יָשְׁב֥וּ | yashevu | they dwelt | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| אֲבִֽי־ | ʾavi- | [the] father of | H1 → | 1212 times |
| גִבְע֖וֹן | givon | Gibeon | H1391 → | 38 times |
| יְעִיאֵ֑ל | yeuel | Jeiel | H3273 → | 14 times |
| וְשֵׁ֥ם | veshem | and [the] name of | H8034 → | 864 times |
| אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ | ʾishto | wife his | H802 → | 781 times |
| מַעֲכָֽה׃ | maakhah | [was] Maacah | H4601 → | 23 times |
וּבְגִבְע֛וֹןand in Gibeon
uvegivonH1391 →38 times
יָשְׁב֥וּthey dwelt
yashevuH3427 →1079 times
אֲבִֽי־[the] father of
ʾavi-H1 →1212 times
גִבְע֖וֹןGibeon
givonH1391 →38 times
יְעִיאֵ֑לJeiel
yeuelH3273 →14 times
וְשֵׁ֥םand [the] name of
veshemH8034 →864 times
אִשְׁתּ֖וֹwife his
ʾishtoH802 →781 times
מַעֲכָֽה׃[was] Maacah
maakhahH4601 →23 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
1 stopEach 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
1 Chronicles 2:45The son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
it leads to
- Joshua 15:58
Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,
- Joshua 15:58
About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
