2And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
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And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites. …
And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)One reason, no doubt, why Ezra is here most particular in the register of the tribe of Judah is because it was that tribe which, with its appendages, Simeon, Benjamin, and Levi, made up the kingdom of Judah, which not only long survived the other tribes in Canaan, but in process of time, now when this was written, returned out of captivity, when the generality of the other tribes were lost in the…
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