John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:35-44
And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon ,.... Whose name is here mentioned, which is not in 1 Chronicles 8:29 . Jehiel: whose wife's name was Maachah ; as there, but here called his sister, as a wife sometimes is, Genesis 20:2 . From hence to the end of the chapter is a repetition of the ancestors and posterity of Saul king of Israel; which is made to lead on to and connect the following history of the kings of Judah, begun in this book, and carried on in the next unto the... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:35-44
1 Chron. 9:35-44 are the very same with 1 Chron. 8:29-38, giving an account of the ancestors of Saul and the posterity of Jonathan. There it is the conclusion of the genealogy of Benjamin; here it is an introduction to the story of Saul. We take the repetition as we find it; but if we admit that there are in the originals, especially in these books, some errors of the transcribers, I should be tempted to think this repetition arose from a blunder. Some one, in copying out these genealogies,... read more