Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Whose wife ' s name was Maachah - Here our translators have departed from the original, for the word is achotho , his Sister; but the Vulgate, Septuagint, Syriac, Arabic, and Chaldee, have Wife; to which may be added I Chronicles 8:29, the parallel place. Almost all the early editions, as well as the MS. editions, have the same reading. Of all the Polyglots the Complutensian alone has ishto , his Wife. His wife is the reading also of Vatablus' s Polyglot, but in the margin he observes that other copies have his sister. There is most certainly a fault somewhere, for Maachah could not be both the sister and wife of Jehiel. Whether, therefore, I Chronicles 8:29 has been altered from this, or this altered from that, who can tell? A single letter makes the whole difference: if the word be written with cheth , it is Sister; if with shin , it is Wife. The latter is most probably the true reading. It is so in three very ancient MSS. in my own possession.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing 1 Chronicles 9:35:
1 Chronicles 8:29
1 Chronicles 9:41
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