1 Chronicles 8:29
 1 Chronicles 8:29 
New International Version (©2011)
Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife's name was Maakah,

New Living Translation (©2007)
Jeiel (the father of Gibeon) lived in the town of Gibeon. His wife's name was Maacah,

English Standard Version (©2001)
Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon, and the name of his wife was Maacah.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now in Gibeon, Jeiel, the father of Gibeon lived, and his wife's name was Maacah;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name was Maachah:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Jeiel fathered Gibeon and lived in Gibeon. His wife's name was Maacah.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon, and his wife was named Maacah.

NET Bible (©2006)
The father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon; his wife's name was Maacah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Jeiel, who first settled Gibeon, lived in Gibeon, and his wife's name was Maacah.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name was Maachah:

American King James Version
And at Gibeon dwelled the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name was Maachah:

American Standard Version
And in Gibeon there dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jeiel , whose wife's name was Maacah;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And at Gabaon dwelt Abigabaon, and the name of his wife was Maacha:

Darby Bible Translation
And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; and his wife's name was Maachah.

English Revised Version
And in Gibeon there dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah:

Webster's Bible Translation
And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name was Maachah:

World English Bible
In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, [Jeiel], whose wife's name was Maacah;

Young's Literal Translation
And in Gibeon hath the father of Gibeon dwelt, and the name of his wife is Maachah;

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 29-40. - These verses are occupied with the immediate ancestors and posterity of Saul. And apparently the same account, minus some of its deficiencies, is repeated in the next chapter, vers. 35-44. The two may be taken together here, and the latter will help the interpretation of the former. Verse 29. - The father - i.e, the chief - of Gibeon. (For Gibeon, see Joshua 9:3, 7-18; Joshua 10:2; Joshua 11:19; Nehemiah 7:25; Nehemiah 3:7.) The father of Gibeon (1 Chronicles 9:35) was Jehiel (יְעִיאֵל; Chethiv spells with vau; not יְחִיאֵל, 1 Chronicles 15:24). Of Jehiel by this name we do not elsewhere read. And even if it were on other grounds possible to identify the person with the Abiel of 1 Samuel 9:1 and 1 Sam 14:51, it is not possible to identify the names. Compare the similar remarkable omission of the name of the "father of Gibea" (1 Chronicles 2:49), an omission to be filled very possibly by this same name Jehiel.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon,.... The builder of the city, and prince of the inhabitants of it, which was in the tribe of Benjamin, Joshua 18:25 whose name was Jehiel, 1 Chronicles 9:35,

(whose wife's name was Maachah;) of which name were many, see 1 Chronicles 2:48.


1 Chronicles 8:29 Parallel Commentaries
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Genealogy from Benjamin to Saul
28These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelled in Jerusalem. 29And at Gibeon dwelled the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name was Maachah: 30And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab, …

Genesis 22:24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maakah.
1 Chronicles 8:28 All these were heads of families, chiefs as listed in their genealogy, and they lived in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 8:30 and his firstborn son was Abdon, followed by Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
1 Chronicles 9:35 Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife's name was Maakah,