1 Chronicles 8:12

12 And the sons of Elpaal were Eber, and Misham, and Shamed; he builded Ono, and Lod, and his villages; (And the sons of Elpaal were Eber, and Misham, and Shamed; it was Shamed who built Ono, and Lod, and their 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 also Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma; those be the sons of him, princes in their families. (and Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma; these be his sons, the leaders in their families.)

11 And Hushim begat Abitub, and Elpaal.

12 And the sons of Elpaal were Eber, and Misham, and Shamed; he builded Ono, and Lod, and his villages; (And the sons of Elpaal were Eber, and Misham, and Shamed; it was Shamed who built Ono, and Lod, and their villages;)

13 and Beriah and Shema were princes of [the] kindreds dwelling in Aijalon; these drove away the dwellers of Gath; (and Beriah and Shema were the leaders of the kindreds, or of the families, living in Aijalon; they drove away the inhabitants of Gath;)

14 and Ahio, and Shashak, and Jeremoth,