1 Chronicles 8:12

12 Elpaal had three sons: Eber, Misham, and Shemed. It was Shemed who built the cities of Ono and Lod and the surrounding villages.

1 Chronicles 8:12 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 8:12

The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed
Besides those in ( 1 Chronicles 8:14 1 Chronicles 8:17 1 Chronicles 8:18 )

who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof;
not Shamed, but Elpaal his father, so the Targum; and the Talmudists say ^F15, these were walled cities from the days of Joshua the son of Nun, and were destroyed in the days of the concubine in Gibea, and Elpaal came and rebuilt them; they were inhabited by the Benjaminites, upon their return from the Babylonish captivity, ( Nehemiah 11:35 ) they were near to each other; according to a Jewish chronologer ^F16, it was three miles from the one to the other; Lod is the same with Lydda, in ( Acts 9:32 Acts 9:35 Acts 9:38 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 T. Hieros. Megillah, fol. 70. 1. & T. Bab Megillah, fol. 4. 1. So the Targum.
F16 Juchasin, fol. 39. 2.

1 Chronicles 8:12 In-Context

10 Jeuz, Sachia, and Mirmah. His sons all became heads of families.

11 He also had two sons by Hushim: Abitub and Elpaal.

12 Elpaal had three sons: Eber, Misham, and Shemed. It was Shemed who built the cities of Ono and Lod and the surrounding villages.

13 Beriah and Shema were heads of families that settled in the city of Aijalon and drove out the people who lived in the city of Gath.

14 Beriah's descendants included Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth,