⁶And these are the sons of Ehud; these are the heads of fathers’ _houses_ of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Manahath: =6.= _Ehud_] _Ehud_ (the deliverer of Israel from Moab) was descended from _Gera_ (verse 5; Judges iii. 15). _Geba_] Compare vi. 60. _they carried them captive_] an utterly obscure phrase, most probably due to textual error. It is a plausible suggestion that the phrase is a corruption of proper names commencing the list which we should expect to follow the preceding words: “_these are the heads of_,” etc. Hogg, _Jewish Quarterly Review_ xi. 102 ff., therefore conjectured the names “=Iglaam and Alemoth=”; and similarly in verse 7, in place of the equally obscure words “_he carried them captive; and he_,” he would read “=and Iglaam begat=.” ⁷and Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera, he carried them captive; and he begat Uzza and Ahihud. =7.= _Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera_] perhaps to be deleted, as a repetition of verse 5. ⁸And Shaharaim begat children in the field of Moab, after he had sent¹ them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives. ⁹And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam; ¹⁰and Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ _houses_. ¹ Or, _sent away Hushim and Baara his wives_. =8, 9.= Again the Hebrew text appears to be in disorder, and the verses in consequence are so obscure that conjectures are all precarious. _Hushim_] is elsewhere the name of a man. Hence verse 11 below should perhaps read =And Hushim begat....= ¹¹And of Hushim he begat Abitub and Elpaal. =11.= _Abitub_] no sons of his are recorded. ¹²And the sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns thereof: =12.= _sons of Elpaal_] Elpaal’s sons are given also and more fully in verses 17, 18; and, as the three names in the present verse appear to be transcriptional variants of three mentioned in 17, 18, it is probable that this verse is a marginal note which has crept into the text. _who built Ono and Lod_] the subject is not _Shemed_, but _Elpaal_; “built,” i.e. entered into possession of. Ono and Lod (= Lydda), some seven and eleven miles respectively south of Jaffa, are referred to in Nehemiah vii. 35, xi. 35, and Ezra ii. 33. The Targum adds, _which the sons of Israel laid waste and burnt with fire, when they made war in Gibeah with the tribe of Benjamin_. ¹³and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ _houses_ of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath; =13.= _Aijalon_] compare Joshua x. 12. It was situated near the Jaffa road, about thirteen miles from Jerusalem. _who put ... Gath_] an interesting remark, which should be compared with vii. 21, 23――note the name _Beriah_ in both passages. The relation of the two passages is, however, uncertain.