John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:17
And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah the chief ,.... The first and only begotten, as it follows: and Eliezer had none other sons ; before nor after him: but the sons of Rehabiah were very many ; or greatly multiplied; not, as the Targum says, above 600,000; the number of Israel, as the Jewish writers F13 T. Bab Beracot, fol. 7. 1, 2, Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 16. fol. 220. 4. fancy; which they gather from Exodus 1:7 , and that though Moses deprecated the multiplication of his... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:16
Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief. Of the posterity of Gershom in the times of David, called Shubael, 1 Chronicles 24:20 , the Targum makes him to be the same with Jonathan, Judges 18:30 . F12 So in Hieron. Trad. Heb. in Paralipom. fol. 84. c. . read more