And Ner begat Kish,.... Who also is called Abiel, as the Targum here adds; for Ner had two names, as other Jewish writers likewise say , see 1Sa 9:1,and Kish begat Saul; the first king of Israel, for whose sake chiefly the genealogy of Benjamin is revised and enlarged in this chapter:and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal, see 1Sa 31:2.
Abinadab is called Ishui, 1Sa 14:49 and Eshbaal is the same with Ishbosheth, 2Sa 2:8, so Baal and Bosheth are used of the same idol of which they are names, Ho 9:10. Vajikra Rabba, sect. 9. fol. 152.