John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 6. And these are the sons of Ehud , etc.] Not he that was a judge in Israel, ( Judges 3:15) but perhaps a son of Huram the last mentioned; for not the three last are his sons, as some think, but the three following in the next verse; what follows being to be read in a parenthesis: (these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba;) a city in the tribe of Benjamin, ( Joshua 18:24) namely, those sons of Ehud, after mentioned, were principal men in that tribe, and chief of the inhabitants of the city of Geba: and they removed them to Manahath ; the name of a country referred to in ( 1 Chronicles 2:52,54) according to Jarchi, which was in the tribe of Judah; Geba being too small, either the inhabitants of Geba removed them, or they removed themselves, or their fathers removed them, ( Chronicles 8:7), or it may be read impersonally, they were removed thither for the sake of a better habitation; the Targum adds, “to the land of the house of Esau,” to Edom; which is not likely.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- Genealogies.
--Here is a larger list of Benjamin's tribe. We may suppose that man things in these genealogies, which to us seem difficult, abrupt, an perplexed, were plain and easy at that time, and fully answered the intention for which they were published. Many great and mighty nation then were in being upon earth, and many illustrious men, whose name are now wholly forgotten; while the names of multitudes of the Israe of God are here kept in everlasting remembrance. The memory of the jus is blessed _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew ואלה428 בני1121 אחוד261 אלה428 הם1992 ראשׁי7218 אבות1 ליושׁבי3427 גבע1387 ויגלום1540 אל413 מנחת׃4506
