1 Chronicles 4:39

The place Gedor cannot be identified in this connection. There is a town of the name situated in the mountainous district of Judah between Halhul and Beth-zur, to the north of Hebron ( Joshua 15:58 ). It is evident that this cannot be the place we require here. There is another town of the name ( 1 Chronicles 12:7 ), probably belonging to Benjamin, and which as little admits of being fitted in here. Both the Alexandrine and the Vatican Codex of the Septuagint, however, evidently read גְּדרָ for גְּדֹר . Now, Gerar of the Philistines would suit well for position and description, and also ( Genesis 10:14 ) for the allusion found here ( 1 Chronicles 4:40 ) to the dwelling there "of old" of the people of Ham. The Hebrew word, however, generally applied to the valley of Gerar ( נַחַל , wady) is not the word used here of Gedor ( הַגָיְא , ravine). See Stanley's 'Syria and Palestine,' p. 159, and note. Not only are references frequent to the fertility of Gerar, but the significance of that in 2 Chronicles 14:14 speaks for itself. This alteration of reading, however, with acceptance of the Septuagint manuscripts, cannot be regarded as altogether satisfactory, and Keil ('Comm.,' in loc .) offers some suggestions of weight against those of Ewald, Bertheau, and others.