19And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.
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And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-23)We may observe in these verses, 1. That here is a whole family of craftsmen, handicraft tradesmen, that applied themselves to all sorts of manufactures, in which they were ingenious and industrious above their neighbours, 1 Chron. 4:14. There was a valley where they lived which was, from them, called the valley of craftsmen . Those that are craftsmen are not therefore to be looked upon as mean men…
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