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1 Chronicles 9:35 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Jeiel the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon. "
1 Chronicles 9:35
Verse in Context
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33 These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service, for they were employed in their work day and night.
34 These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men. They lived at Jerusalem.
35 Jeiel the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon.
36 His firstborn son was Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
37 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth.
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These verses are the same as 1 Chronicles 8:29-38. There, they close the genealogy of Benjamin. Here, they serve as the introduction to Saul’s story, the first king of Israel. We can accept the repetition as it stands. But if we allow that copyists sometimes made mistakes in the original records, especially in these books, this repetition may have come from such an error.
It may be that someone copying these family lines wrote the words of 1 Chronicles 9:34, “These lived in Jerusalem,” then saw the same words in 1 Chronicles 8:28. After that, he continued with the material that followed there instead of what belonged here. When he noticed the mistake, he may have disliked making a correction mark in the book, so he left it as it was. Our law has a rule, “Redundancies do no harm.”
From This Chapter
1 Chronicles 9:1
"So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience."
1 Chronicles 9:2
"Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants."
1 Chronicles 9:3
"In Jerusalem, there lived of the children of Judah, of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:"
1 Chronicles 9:4
"Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah."
1 Chronicles 9:5
"Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn and his sons."
1 Chronicles 9:6
"Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six hundred ninety."
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