Gedor (verse 7) was a town in Judah (Josh 15.58). Some Hebrew manuscripts and the Aramaic translation read gedud (“troop”). Some interpreters suggest that the Hebrew words translated from Gedor (min hagdor) may have accidentally been added to the text when a scribe unintentionally repeated the words min haggadi (“From the Gadites”) from the beginning of the next verse. If Gedor is a town in the territory of Judah, rather than of Benjamin, such a correction would eliminate the surprising mention of warriors from Judah among a list of warriors from the tribe of Benjamin. But the Masoretic Text should be followed here since there is no textual evidence for such a change. New Century Version provides a model for some languages, adding a classifier term and translating “the town of Gedor.”

Quoted with permission from Omanson, Roger L. and Ellington, John E. A Handbook on 1-2 Chronicles, Volume 1. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2014. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .