17. All these were reckoned] The short abstract here made of their genealogies is taken out of the publick registers, or muster-rolls, made of this tribe, the one in the reign of Jeroboam, and the other in that of Jotham. Pyle. 25. And they transgressed &c.] These, together with the other Eastern tribes, being probably the first beginners of the national apostasy from the religion of the true God, and the ringleaders to epidemical idolatry, were the first who, in the just course of Providence, were delivered up to the arms of the Assyrian monarchs, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of † men an hundred thousand. 60. — were thirteen cities.] The whole number was thirteen: eleven only are mentioned here; two more, Juttah and Oibson, being added at Josh. xxi. 16, 17. Bp. Patrick. 61. And unto the sons of Kohath,] The names of the Levitical cities follow to the end of the chapter, the same as in Josh xxi. with such allowances for the alteration or different pronunciation of the names of places, as length of time naturally produces in all languages and countries. Pyle.