Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 4:31

31 And at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-birei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David .

Either 1. of Davids Posterity; i. e. as long as the Kingdom of Iudah lasted, or until the Captivity of Babylon. But this seems not to be true; for Simeon was gone into Captivity with the rest of the Ten Tribes long before that time. Or rather 2. of David himself. And this may seem to be added, because some of these Cities though given to Simeon by Ioshua, yet through the Sloth or Cowardize of that Tribe, were not taken from the Philistins, until Davids Time, who took some of them; and, the Simeonites having justly forfeited their Right to them by their neglect, gave them to his own Tribe. For it is evident concerning Ziklag, one of them, that it was in the Philistins Hands in Davids Time, and by them given to him, and by him annexed to the Tribe of Iudah, 1 Sam. 27. 6.

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