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5And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.

1 Chronicles 8:5

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • 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.

Commentary

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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