1 Chronicles 11

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Eliab - Called also Elihu, chap.27:18, unless that was another person, and the word brother be taken more largely for a kinsman, as it is frequently.

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Seventh - He had eight sons, 1 Samuel 16:10, but probably one of them died presently after that time.

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Ishmaelite - By birth or habitation, but by profession an Israelite, 2 Samuel 17:25.

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Her sons - The sons of Azubah, who is by way of distinction called his wife, when Jerioth probably was only his concubine, and, it may seem, barren: therefore upon Azubah’s death he married another wife. And those other sons of this Caleb mentioned, ver.42, are his sons by some other wife distinct from all these.

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Gilead - Of a man so called: a man of noted valour, and the great champion in those parts.

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Sons of Machir - Partly to his own sons, and partly to his son - in - law Jair, who by reason of that dear affection which was betwixt them, and his forsaking his own tribe and kindred to fight for them and to dwell with them, is here reckoned as his own son.

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Tekoa - A known place whose father he is called, because he was either the progenitor of the people inhabiting there: or, their prince and ruler: or, the builder of the city.

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The sons - An expression often used in prophane authors too, where there is but one son.

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Jarha - Probably he was not only a proselyte, but an eminent man: else an Israelite would not have given him his only daughter.

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Beth - zur - A place in Judah.

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Madmannah - This, and divers other following names are the names of places in Judah.

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Bethlehem - That is, the inhabitants of Bethlehem.

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Scribes - Either civil, who were public notaries, that wrote and signed legal instruments: or ecclesiastical. And these were either Levites, or Simeonites, or rather Kenites, and are here mentioned not as if they were of the tribe of Judah, but because they dwelt among them, and probably were allied to them by marriages, and so in a manner incorporated with them.

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Scribes - Either civil, who were public notaries, that wrote and signed legal instruments: or ecclesiastical. And these were either Levites, or Simeonites, or rather Kenites, and are here mentioned not as if they were of the tribe of Judah, but because they dwelt among them, and probably were allied to them by marriages, and so in a manner incorporated with them.

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Scribes - Either civil, who were public notaries, that wrote and signed legal instruments: or ecclesiastical. And these were either Levites, or Simeonites, or rather Kenites, and are here mentioned not as if they were of the tribe of Judah, but because they dwelt among them, and probably were allied to them by marriages, and so in a manner incorporated with them.

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His wife - Possibly so called because she was his first, and therefore most proper wife, though her son was born after all the rest before mentioned, and therefore she and her son are put in the sixth place, the wive being here named only for the sons sake.