Verse 6
Beerah his son ,.... The last of Joel's posterity, who, according to the Targum and other Jewish writers F17 Aben Ezra in Hos. i. 1. Pesikta apud Abarbinel. in ib. was a prophet, and the father of Hosea, see Hosea 1:1 but neither the name, title, time, nor tribe, agree:
whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive ; the same with Tiglathpileser by a transposition of letters, 2 Kings 15:29 and is read the same here in the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic versions:
he was prince of the Reubenites ; at that time; that is, Beerah was.
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