5And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
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Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.
Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-32)There is little or nothing of history in all these verses; we have not therefore much to observe. 1. As to the difficulties that occur in this and the foregoing genealogies we need not perplex ourselves. I presume Ezra took them as he found them in the books of the kings of Israel and Judah (1 Chron. 9:1), according as they were given in by the several tribes, each observing what method they thoug…
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