1 Chronicles 8:12
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New International Version (©2011)
The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod with its surrounding villages),

New Living Translation (©2007)
The sons of Elpaal were Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built the towns of Ono and Lod and their nearby villages),

English Standard Version (©2001)
The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod with its towns,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The sons of Elpaal were Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Elpaal's sons: Eber, Misham, and Shemed who built Ono and Lod and its villages,

International Standard Version (©2012)
Elpaal's descendants included Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod, along with its towns),

NET Bible (©2006)
The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod, as well as its surrounding towns),

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Elpaal's sons were Eber, Misham, and Shemed (who built Ono, Lod, and Lod's villages).

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono, and Lod, with its towns:

American King James Version
The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:

American Standard Version
And the sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns thereof;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Elphaal were Heber, and Misaam, and Samad: who built One, and Led, and its daughters.

Darby Bible Translation
And the sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemer, who built Ono, and Lod and its dependent villages;

English Revised Version
And the sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns thereof:

Webster's Bible Translation
The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with its town:

World English Bible
The sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;

Young's Literal Translation
And sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misheam, and Shamer, (he built Ono and Lod and its small towns),

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:1-40 Genealogies. - Here is a larger list of Benjamin's tribe. We may suppose that many things in these genealogies, which to us seem difficult, abrupt, and perplexed, were plain and easy at that time, and fully answered the intention for which they were published. Many great and mighty nations then were in being upon earth, and many illustrious men, whose names are now wholly forgotten; while the names of multitudes of the Israel of God are here kept in everlasting remembrance. The memory of the just is blessed.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 12-28. - One of the sons of this last-named wife, Hushim, was named Elpaal. From ver. 12 to ver. 28 we have a numerous list of his descendants, evidently in different degrees of relationship, but with the thread picked up apparently several times, in the persons of the first-mentioned "sons," viz. the five, Eber, Misham, Shamed, Beriah, Shema (see vers. 16, 18, 21, 25, 27). Verse 12. - Ono and Lod. These places are not mentioned in Joshua as originally assigned to Benjamin. They were obtained or "built" afterwards. They are first mentioned in this passage, afterwards in Ezra 2:33; Nehemiah 6:2; Nehemiah 7:37; Nehemiah 11:36. Led is, with little doubt, the Lydda of Acts 9:32.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed,.... Besides those in 1 Chronicles 8:14.

who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof; not Shamed, but Elpaal his father, so the Targum; and the Talmudists say (o), these were walled cities from the days of Joshua the son of Nun, and were destroyed in the days of the concubine in Gibea, and Elpaal came and rebuilt them; they were inhabited by the Benjaminites, upon their return from the Babylonish captivity, Nehemiah 11:35 they were near to each other; according to a Jewish chronologer (p), it was three miles from the one to the other; Lod is the same with Lydda, in Acts 9:32.

(o) T. Hieros. Megillah, fol. 70. 1. & T. Bab Megillah, fol. 4. 1. So the Targum. (p) Juchasin, fol. 39. 2.

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Genealogy from Benjamin to Saul
…11And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal. 12The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof: 13Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath: …

Acts 9:32 As Peter traveled about the country, he went to visit the Lord's people who lived in Lydda.
Acts 9:35 All those who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.
1 Chronicles 8:11 By Hushim he had Abitub and Elpaal.
1 Chronicles 8:13 and Beriah and Shema, who were heads of families of those living in Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath.
Nehemiah 6:2 Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: "Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono." But they were scheming to harm me;