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1 Chronicles 9:35

1 Chronicles 9:35

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

am 2804, etc. bc 1200, etc

in Gibeon:

the father: , ,

whose: Some editions read achatho:, "his sister;" but in the parallel place , it is ishto:, "his wife," which is also the reading of the LXX, Vulgate, Arabic, and Syriac here, and is undoubtedly the true reading. This repetition of part of Bemjamin's genealogy seems to have been intended merely as an introduction to the ensuing history.

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