1 Chronicles 8:28

And Ner begat Kish,.... Who also is called Abiel, as the Targum here adds; for Ner had two names, as other Jewish writers likewise say (r), see Sa1 9:1,

and Kish begat Saul; the first king of…

These dwelt in Jerusalem - Jerusalem was partly within the limits of the tribe of Benjamin Jos 18:28; but we do not hear of Benjamites inhabiting it until after the return from the captivity 1Ch 9:3;…

These were heads of the fathers - On the following verses Dr. Kennicott has labored hard to restore the true reading. See his detailed comparison of these and their parallel passages in his Hebrew…

There is little or nothing of history in all these verses; we have not therefore much to observe. 1. As to the difficulties that occur in this and the foregoing genealogies we need not perplex…

of the fathers, by their generations R.V. of fathers " houses throughout their generations.

These dwelt in Jerusalem i.e. in the writer's day the heads of families enumerated in 1Ch 8:15-27 dwelt in…