54The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The men of Netophah, fifty and six.
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;
And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-55)The persons mentioned in the former paragraph are most of them such as we read of, and most of them such as we read much of, in other scriptures; but very few of those to whom this paragraph relates are mentioned any where else. It should seem, the tribe of Judah were more full and exact in their genealogies than any other of the tribes, in which we must acknowledge a special providence, for the c…
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