1Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
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And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab, …
And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab, …
And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-2)We are here told, 1. What a good family Saul was of, 1 Sam. 9:1. He was of the tribe of Benjamin; so was the New-Testament Saul, who also was called Paul , and he mentions it as his honour, for Benjamin was a favourite, Rom. 11:1 ; Phil. 3:5 . That tribe had been reduced to a very small number by the fatal war with Gibeah, and much ado there was to provide wives for those 600 men that were the poo…
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