1 Chronicles 8:19-29

19 Yakim, Zikhri, Zavdi,

20 Eli'einai, Tziltai, Eli'el,

21 'Adayah, B'rayah and Shimrat were the sons of Shim'i.

22 Yishpan, 'Eved, Eli'el,

23 'Avdon, Zikhri, Hanan,

24 Hananyah, 'Eilam, 'Anatotyah,

25 Yifdeyah and P'nu'el were the sons of Shashak.

26 Shamsh'rai, Sh'charyah,'Atalyah,

27 Ya'areshyah, Eliyah and Zikhri were the sons of Yerocham.

28 These were leaders of fathers' houses through all their generations, leading men who lived in Yerushalayim.

29 In Giv'on lived the father of Giv'on, whose wife's name was Ma'akhah;

1 Chronicles 8:19-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 8

In this chapter the genealogy of the tribe of Benjamin is reconsidered, and several of the principal men and families in it are taken notice of, which were not before; or a further account is given of them, as of the sons and grandsons of Benjamin, 1Ch 8:1-5, of Ehud, 1Ch 8:5-7, of Shaharaim, 1Ch 8:8-11, of Elpaal and Beriah, 1Ch 8:12-18 of Shimhi, 1Ch 8:19-21, of Shashak, 1Ch 8:22-25, of Jeroham, 1Ch 8:26,27, of Jehiel the father of Gibeon, 1Ch 8:28-32, of Ner, and particularly Saul, 1Ch 8:33 and of Jonathan, and his posterity, 1Ch 8:34-40.