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1 Chronicles 8:29 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 8 · verse 29
And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife’s name was Maachah:1 Chronicles 8:29 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 8:29 in context
27And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.
28These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.
29And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife’s name was Maachah:
30And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,
31And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- MaachahMaʻăkâhMaakah , the name of a place in Syria, also of a Mesopotamian, of three Israelites, and…H4601 →
- GibeonGibʻôwnGibon, a place in PalestineH1391 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- GibeonʼĂbîy GibʻôwnAbi-Gibon, perhaps an IsraeliteH25 →
- wife'sʼishshâha womanH802 →
- dweltyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
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There is little or nothing of history in all these verses; we have not therefore much to observe. 1. As to the difficulties that occur in this and the foregoing genealogies we need not perplex ourselves.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-32