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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comFausset Bible Dictionary: Shelomith
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1. Married an Egyptian, a connection unfavourable for promotion of piety (-15); their son was stoned for blasphemy ().
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3. ; SHELOMOTH .
4. -26; .
5. Son of Shimei, a Gershonite (). The Gershonites numbered nine fathers' houses, six named after Laadan, and three after Shimei. The three sons of Laadan () and the three of Shimei (, descended from Libni and not elsewhere named) were heads of the fathers' houses of Laadan. The Shimei in is distinct from the Shimei in . The sons of the Shimei in are not enumerated until . Laadan and Shimei are not named in as being sons of Gershon, but as founders of the two chief lilies of the Gershonites.
6. ; but Septuagint read "of the sons of Bani, Shelomith the son of Josiphiah."