1 Chronicles 8:8-18

8 Shacharayim became the father of children in the field of Mo'av, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Ba`ara were his wives.

9 He became the father of Hodesh his wife, Yovav, and Tzivyah, and Mesha, and Malkam,

10 and Ye`utz, and Sokhyah, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers' [houses].

11 Of Hushim he became the father of Avituv and Elpa`al.

12 The sons of Elpa`al: `Ever, and Mish`am, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns of it;

13 and Beri`ah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Ayalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gat;

14 and Achyo, Shashak, and Yeremot,

15 and Zevadyah, and `Arad, and `Eder,

16 and Mikha'el, and Yishpah, and Yocha, the sons of Beri`ah,

17 and Zevadyah, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and Hever,

18 and Ishmerai, and Yizli'ah, and Yovav, the sons of Elpa`al,

1 Chronicles 8:8-18 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.