1 Chronicles 8:12

12 The sons of Elpa'al: 'Ever, Mish'am, Shemed - he built Ono and Lod with its towns -

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 ) .


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 Ye'utz, Sokhya and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of clans.
11 Through Hushim he fathered Avituv and Elpa'al.
12 The sons of Elpa'al: 'Ever, Mish'am, Shemed - he built Ono and Lod with its towns -
13 and B'ri'ah and Shema - they were heads of fathers' clans among the inhabitants of Ayalon, who drove away the people living in Gat.
14 Achyo, Shashak, Yeremot,
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