³⁴And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah; ³⁵and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel; ³⁶and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah; ³⁷and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah; ³⁸these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers’ houses increased greatly. =38.= _their fathers’ houses_] See note on chapter v. 13. ³⁹And they went to the entering in of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. =39.= _the entering in of Gedor_] Compare verse 18. The Gedor of Joshua xv. 58 is identified with _Jedur_, _Ijdur_ (north of Hebron, Bädeker, _Palestine_⁵, p. 112). See Macalister, _Palestine Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement_, 1905, 335. LXX. has _Gerar_ (compare Genesis xx. 1; xxvi. 1), on the Philistine border. ⁴⁰And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they that dwelt there aforetime were of Ham. =40.= _they ... of Ham_] i.e. Canaanites, who had long been settled in the district (compare the security felt by the people of Laish, Judges xviii. 27). Their presence would seem natural in _Gerar_ on the Philistine border but strange in _Gedor_ near Hebron. If therefore the reading _Gedor_ be preferred above, there is something to be said for the suggestion of Macalister (p. 335) that we should here read “of Menahem” (a change of one letter in Hebrew), some unwarlike Hebrew family, perhaps potters. ⁴¹And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the Meunim that were found there, and destroyed¹ them utterly, unto this day, and dwelt in their stead: because there was pasture there for their flocks. ⁴²And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. ¹ Hebrew _devoted them_. =41.= _written by name_] Apparently those mentioned in verses 34‒37; but the names there are of a late character, and have perhaps been artificially connected with the old tradition of the raiders in verses 41 ff. _in the days of Hezekiah_] The Hebrew is ambiguous, but the clause should probably be connected with the verb “came,” not with “written”: the raid, not the record, was made in the days of Hezekiah.