And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.
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Gill's Exposition
These mentioned by their names were princes in their families,.... The principal men of them, heads of their fathers' houses:
and the house of their fathers increased greatly; by them, so that they…
Barnes' Notes
And their genealogy - Rather, “and their register was according thereto” - they were registered, i. e. according to the places where they dwelt.
We have here some of the genealogies of the tribe of Simeon (though it was not a tribe of great note), especially the princes of that tribe, Ch1 4:38. Of this tribe it is said that they increased…
Cambridge Bible
unto Baal Baal("lord") standing by itself is an unlikely name for a town; the parallel passage. Jos 19:8, reads Baalath-beer, Ramah of the South("the mistress of the well, the high place of the…