40And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begat Micah.
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And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal; and Meribbaal begat Micah. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 35-44)1 Chron. 9:35-44 are the very same with 1 Chron. 8:29-38, giving an account of the ancestors of Saul and the posterity of Jonathan. There it is the conclusion of the genealogy of Benjamin; here it is an introduction to the story of Saul. We take the repetition as we find it; but if we admit that there are in the originals, especially in these books, some errors of the transcribers, I should be tem…
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