1 Chronicles 11:6 BSB

1 Chronicles 11:6

Now David had said, “Whoever is the first to strike down a Jebusite will become chief commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became the chief.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.

KJV

And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The narrative here given fills out a manifest defect in 2Sa 5:8 where something has evidently dropped out of the text. The prowess of Joab on this occasion, and the part which he took in the building of the city of David 1Ch 11:8, are known to us only from this passage of Chronicles.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he had said	H559 →
דָּוִ֔יד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
כָּל־	kol-	any	H3605 →
מַכֵּ֤ה	ma.Keh	[one who] strikes down	H5221 →
יְבוּסִי֙	ye.vu.Si	<of> a Jebusite	H2983 →
בָּרִ֣אשׁוֹנָ֔ה	ba.Ri.sho.Nah	at the first	H7223 →
יִהְיֶ֥ה	yih.Yeh	he will become	H1961 →
לְרֹ֖אשׁ	le.Rosh	<into> a chief	H7218 →
וּלְשָׂ֑ר	u.le.Sar	and <into> a commander	H8269 →
וַיַּ֧עַל	vai.Ya.'al	and he went up	H5927 →
בָּרִאשׁוֹנָ֛ה	ba.ri.sho.Nah	at the first	H7223 →
יוֹאָ֥ב	yo.'Av	Joab	H3097 →
בֶּן־	ben-	[the] son of	H1121 →
צְרוּיָ֖ה	tze.ru.Yah	Zeruiah	H6870 →
וַיְהִ֥י	vay.Hi	and he became	H1961 →
לְרֹֽאשׁ׃	le.Rosh	<into> a chief	H7218 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Samuel 2:18
The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 12:8
  Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions…
- Habakkuk 3:19
  GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.
Through
2 Samuel 8:16
Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;
leads to
- 1 Kings 4:3
  Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;
- 2 Samuel 19:13
  And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
Through
2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the…
leads to
- 1 Kings 2:5
  Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them…
- 2 Samuel 20:9–10
  “Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.
Through
1 Samuel 17:25
Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see this man who keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he…
leads to
- Joshua 15:16
  And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”
- Revelation 2:7
  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the…