1-Chronicles - 8:12



12 The sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;

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The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:
And the sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns thereof;
And the sons of Elphaal were Heber, and Misaam, and Samad: who built One, and Led, and its daughters.
And the sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemer, who built Ono, and Lod and its dependent villages;
The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with its town:
And sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misheam, and Shamer, (he built Ono and Lod and its small towns),
And the sons of Elpaal: Eber and Misham and Shemed (he was the builder of Ono and Lod and their daughter-towns);
And the sons of Elpaal were Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod and its daughters.

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Who built Ono, and Lod - The Targum adds, "Which the children of Israel ravaged and burnt with fire, when they made war on the tribe of Benjamin in Gibeah."

The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed,.... Besides those in 1-Chronicles 8:14.
who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof; not Shamed, but Elpaal his father, so the Targum; and the Talmudists say (o), these were walled cities from the days of Joshua the son of Nun, and were destroyed in the days of the concubine in Gibea, and Elpaal came and rebuilt them; they were inhabited by the Benjaminites, upon their return from the Babylonish captivity, Nehemiah 11:35 they were near to each other; according to a Jewish chronologer (p), it was three miles from the one to the other; Lod is the same with Lydda, in Acts 9:32.
(o) T. Hieros. Megillah, fol. 70. 1. & T. Bab Megillah, fol. 4. 1. So the Targum. (p) Juchasin, fol. 39. 2.

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