The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:
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Interpretation
This verse speaks in the wider setting of memory and worship as 1 Chronicles unfolds its message.
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This thought runs through 1 Chronicles 8:12-16.
Glossary
- Lod Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Lod.
- Misham Person
- Their cleansing or their beholding, a Benjamite, one of the sons of Elpaal ( 1 Chr. 8:12 ).
- Ono Place
- A town of Benjamin, in the “plain of Ono” ( 1 Chr. 8:12 ; Ezra 2:33 ); now Kefr ‘Ana, 5 miles north of Lydda, and about 30 miles north-west of Jerusalem. Modern identification: Kafr Ana.