Meholathite

How Nave’s arranged it

• An inhabitant of a city in the territory of Issachar1 Samuel 18:192 Samuel 21:8

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 1 Samuel 18:19

   So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 18:192 voices

   “Adriel the Meholathite - The five sons of this marriage perished by the hands of the Gibeonites (marginal reference), where we learn further that the name of Adriel’s father, or ancestor, was Barzillai. His birth-place was Meholah, probably the same as Abel-Meholah. (See 1Ki 19:16 note).

   “Adriel - The son of Bar-zillai, as he is called, 2 Sam. xxi, 8. This was an act of great injustice; and accordingly this marriage was accursed by God, and the children begotten in it, were, by God's appointment cut off, 2 Sam. xxi, 8, 9.

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2. 2 Samuel 21:8

   But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 21:82 voices

   “But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah,....

   “Five sons of Michal - whom she brought up - Michal, Saul’s daughter, was never married to Adriel, but to David, and afterwards to Phaltiel; though it is here said she bore ילדה yaledah, not brought up, as we falsely translate it: but we learn from 1Sa 18:19, that Merab, one of Saul’s daughters, was married to Adriel.

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