1 Kings 4:18

Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:

EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(18) The eleventh division, the territory of Benjamin (properly including Jerusalem itself), though small, is singularly strong and populous, including Jericho, Bethel, Gibeon, Ramah, extending from Judah to Ephraim, and commanding the centre of the high land of what was afterwards the kingdom of Judah.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:1-19 In the choice of the great officers of Solomon's court, no doubt, his wisdom appeared. Several are the same that were in his father's time. A plan was settled by which no part of the country was exhausted to supply his court, though each sent its portion.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the margin. Ahinadab had the territory from the places last mentioned as far as Mahanaim Genesis 32:2.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

8. The son of Hur—or, as the Margin has it, Benhur, Bendekar. In the rural parts of Syria, and among the Arabs, it is still common to designate persons not by their own names, but as the sons of their fathers.

Matthew Poole's Commentary

The son of Elah; which he adds to distinguish him from that cursed and cursing Shimei, 2 Samuel 16:5.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Shimei the son of Elah in Benjamin. So described, to distinguish him from that Shimei that cursed David, who was of the same tribe; See Gill on 2 Samuel 16:5.

Geneva Study Bible

Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:

EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

18. Elah] The usual manner of transliteration requires Ela, like Baana in 16.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 18. - Shimei the son of Elah [by some identified with the Shimei of chapter 1 Kings 1:8. But see note there], in Benjamin. [It is noteworthy that Shimei was a Benjamite name, 2 Samuel 16:5, 11.] 1 Kings 4:18

Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

Shimei the son of Elah, possibly the one mentioned in 1 Kings 1:8, in Benjamin.