24And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
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The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.
They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-28)We have here the lot of the tribe of Benjamin, which Providence cast next to Joseph on the one hand, because Benjamin was own and only brother to Joseph, and was little Benjamin (Ps. 68:27), that needed the protection of great Joseph, and yet had a better protector, for the Lord shall cover him all the day long , Deut. 33:12. And it was next to Judah on the other hand, that this tribe might hereaf…
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