1 Kings 4:16

1Ki 4:16 Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth:

Ver. 16. And in Aloth.] Called also Elath. {Deu 2:8}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

(16) The ninth division, “in Asher and Aloth,” bordered on the Tyrian territory, stretching north from Mount Carmel, first along the coast, and then behind the ranges of Lebanon. In Jdg_1:31-32, we read that the tribe of Asher did not occupy the territory assigned them (Jos_19:24-30), but mingled with the native inhabitants. Aloth (or in the Greek Version Baloth) is unknown, and Josephus places this province on the coast, near Achzib.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

16. Baanah] The Hebrew orthography is the same as in 1Ki_4:12. So read Baana. Here another son of his father’s friend is cared for by Solomon. Hushai, father of Baana, was devoted to David’s cause in the rebellion of Absalom (2Sa_15:32) and it speaks well for Solomon that this devotion is not forgotten.

and in Aloth] We meet nowhere else with the name Aloth. The LXX. read Βααλώθ, which the Vulg. follows in Baloth. Hence the R.V. has given and Bealoth taking the initial ב not as a preposition = in, but as part of the proper name. The name does occur (Jos_15:24) but there it is of a place in the south of Judah. There may however have been another town or district so named elsewhere. The tribe of Asher, near to which this place must have been, lay on the sea-board, southward from Phœnicia, while Naphtali was to the east, and somewhat north, of it, above what in later times was the sea of Galilee.

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Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead,.... Which was beyond Jordan, and inhabited by the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh; this must be understood of all the country, excepting what was under the jurisdiction of the son of Geber, Kg1 4:13; and which had been

the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; until it was taken from them by Moses, Num 21:25;

and he was the only officer which was in the land; which is not true of Geber; for there was another officer in the land of Gilead besides him, the son of Geber before observed, unless it should be rendered "in that land", in that part of the land he had; but then the same might have been observed of all the rest of the officers: the words may be rendered best, "and there was one officer in the land"; which some understand of one officer over all the rest, Azariah the son of Nathan, Kg1 4:5; but it seems best what other Jewish writers say (u), that this was another officer appointed for the intercalated month; when there were thirteen months in the year, there was an officer in the land fixed for that month to make provision out of the land; perhaps any where, where he pleased, being not limited to any certain place. These twelve providers for Solomon's family were emblems of the twelve apostles of Christ, appointed to provide food for his family, the church; and if you add to them the Apostle Paul, it will make thirteen, as this officer did.

(u) T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 12. 1.

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16. Hushai — Perhaps the friend of David mentioned in 2Sa_15:32.

Asher — See at Jos_19:24-31.

Aloth — or Baaloth, as Septuagint and Vulgate read the word. It is now unknown.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Banaah or Baana, the second prefect of that name (ver. 12). The names are identical in the Hebrew. In 2Sa_4:2 the name is Baanah the son of Hushai the Archite, David"s friend. Cf. 2Sa_15:32 was in Asher and Aloth . No town or district of this name is known. Probably the word should be Bealoth, as in the LXX, Syr., and Vulg. Our translators have taken the initial B for a prefix, but it is almost certainly part of the name. There was a Baaloth in Judah (Jos_15:24) and a Baaloth in Dan (ibid. 19:44), but neither of these can be meant here.

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