SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:31
Y los hijos de Benjamín desde Geba en Micmas y Aía, y en Bet-el y sus aldeas;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 11:31
Verse 31. Geba] Probably the same as Gibeah of Saul.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 31. The children also of Benjamin, from Geba, dwelt at Michmash , etc.] Geba was a city on the southern border of Benjamin, ( Joshua 18:24) and Michmash on the northern, of which (see 1 Samuel 13:2) in this and the four following verses are the names of several cities in the tribe of Benjamin, inhabited by the men of that tribe, as Alia, the same with Ai, that lay on the east of Bethel, here also mentioned, (see Joshua 7:2) Anathoth, the birth place of Jeremiah the prophet, ( Jeremiah 1:1). Nob, a city of the priests, ( 1 Samuel 21:1 22:19). Ananiah is nowhere else mentioned; Hazor is to be distinguished from another of this name in the tribe of Naphtali, ( Joshua 19:36). Ramah, a place well known in Benjamin, ( Joshua 18:25). Gittaim, of which (see 2 Samuel 4:3). Hadid, the same with Adida, which lay in a plain, “Simon also set up Adida in Sephela, and made it strong with gates and bars.” (1 Maccabees 12:38) Zeboim, a valley of this name, is read in ( 1 Samuel 13:18). Neballat we read of nowhere else; of Lod and Ono, (see 1 Chronicles 8:12) and the valley of craftsmen, or Chorasin, ( 1 Chronicles 4:14).
Matthew Henry Commentary
The distribution of the people.
--In all ages, men have preferred their own ease and advantage to the public good. Even the professors of religion too commonly seek their own, and not the things of Christ. Few have had such attachment to holy things and holy places, as to renounce pleasure for their sake. Ye surely, our souls should delight to dwell where holy persons an opportunities of spiritual improvement most abound. If we have not thi love to the city of our God, and to every thing that assists ou communion with the Saviour, how shall we be willing to depart hence; to be absent from the body, that we may be present with the Lord? To the carnal-minded, the perfect holiness of the New Jerusalem would be stil harder to bear than the holiness of God's church on earth. Let us see first the favour of God, and his glory; let us study to be patient contented, and useful in our several stations, and wait, with cheerfu hope, for admission into the holy city of God __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ובני 1121 בנימן 1144 מגבע 1387 מכמשׂ 4363 ועיה 5857 ובית אל 1008 ובנתיה׃ 1323
