And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah:

And in Gabaon dwelt Jehiel the father of Gabaon, and the name of hill wife was Maacha:

And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, and his wife's name was Maachah.

And in Gibeon dwelt hath the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, and the name of his wife is Maachah;

And in Gibeon dwelled the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah:

And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah;

An almost exact repetition of 1-Chronicles 8:29-38; and probably intentionally made by the author. In order to connect the genealogical section of his work with the historical, he re-introduces the genealogy of the person with whose death his historical section opens.

Whose wife's name was Maachah - Here our translators have departed from the original, for the word is אחתו achotho, his Sister; but the Vulgate, Septuagint, Syriac, Arabic, and Chaldee, have Wife; to which may be added 1-Chronicles 8:29, the parallel place. Almost all the early editions, as well as the MS. editions, have the same reading. Of all the Polyglots the Complutensian alone has אשתו ishto, his Wife. His wife is the reading also of Vatablus's Polyglot, but in the margin he observes that other copies have his sister. There is most certainly a fault somewhere, for Maachah could not be both the sister and wife of Jehiel. Whether, therefore, 1-Chronicles 8:29 has been altered from this, or this altered from that, who can tell? A single letter makes the whole difference: if the word be written with ח cheth, it is Sister; if with ש shin, it is Wife. The latter is most probably the true reading. It is so in three very ancient MSS. in my own possession.

And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon,.... Whose name is here mentioned, which is not in 1-Chronicles 8:29. Jehiel:
whose wife's name was Maachah; as there, but here called his sister, as a wife sometimes is, Genesis 20:2. From hence to the end of the chapter is a repetition of the ancestors and posterity of Saul king of Israel; which is made to lead on to and connect the following history of the kings of Judah, begun in this book, and carried on in the next unto the Babylonish captivity, see 1-Chronicles 8:29, and the notes there.

The family of King Saul. - This register has already occurred in 1-Chronicles 8:29-38, along with those of other families of the tribe of Benjamin, and is repeated here only to connect the following history of the kingship with the preceding genealogical lists. It forms here the introduction to the narrative of Saul's death in 1-Chronicles 10:1-14, which in turn forms the transition to the kingship of David. The deviations of this register from that in 1-Chronicles 8:29-38, show that it has been derived from another document in more complete preservation than that in 1 Chron 8, which had been handed down in connection with other genealogies of the Benjamite families, and had suffered considerably in its text. See the commentary on 1-Chronicles 8:29-38.

Maachah - In this and the following verses, he repeats Saul's genealogy, that he might make way for the following history.