1 Chronicles 2:17

And Segub begat Jair, who had twenty three cities in the land of Gilead. Which, according to Kimchi, he inherited in right of his wife, which, he says, he took out of the land of Gilead; but they seem…

Jether the Ishmeelite - See the marginal note and reference.

Jether the Ishmeelite - "They called him Jether, because he girded himself with his sword, that he might assist David with the Arabians, when Abner was endeavoring to destroy David and the whole race…

Here is, I. The family of Jacob. His twelve sons are here named, that illustrious number so often celebrated almost throughout the whole Bible, from the first to the last book of it. At every turn we…

Jether 2Sa 17:25, "Ithra," a small difference of spelling in the Heb.

the Ishmeelite 2Sa 17:25, "the Israelite," a reading yielding no satisfactory sense.