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1 Chronicles 2:15

in 1 Chronicles 2

Ozem sixth, and David seventh.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;

KJV

Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:

This verse in 1 Chronicles 2

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
David the seventh - Jesse had eight sons, of whom David was the youngest 1Sa 16:10-11; 1Sa 17:12. Probably one of the sons shown to Samuel at Bethlehem did not grow up.

This site's exposition

a leader of the descendants of Judah

on 1 Chronicles 2:10-17

Ram's line runs through Amminadab and Nahshon, a leader of Judah, to Boaz, Jesse, and David. Ruth 4:19 to 22 gives the same succession, and Matthew 1:3 to 6 carries it into the genealogy of Christ. Here David is Jesse's seventh son, while 1 Samuel 17:12 counts eight sons.

This site's exposition

Ozem sixth, and David seventh

In 1 Samuel 16:10 to 11 and 17:12 David is the youngest of eight sons. Barnes explains the difference by supposing that one of the sons shown to Samuel died young. David is still the last born.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

David the seventh--As it appears (1Sa 16:10; 17:12) that Jesse had eight sons, the presumption is from David being mentioned here as the seventh son of his father, that one of them had died at an early age, without leaving issue.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

David the seventh This is written with the plene spelling, with a “yud,” because of David’s honor, and now he found the pearl; therefore, he did not count the eighth [son], Elijah.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 2:15:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And their sisters: Zeruiah and Abigail [They are mentioned] because of David’s honor, i.e., they [Joab, Abishai, and Asael] were his sister’s sons, mighty men and princes. So it is explained further.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 2:16:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

4 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אֹ֚צֶםOzem

    ʾotzemH684 →

  • הַשִּׁשִּׁ֔יthe sixth

    hashishiH8345 →28 times

  • דָּוִ֖ידDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • הַשְּׁבִעִֽי׃the seventh

    hasheviiH7637 →98 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Berean Standard Bible, 1 Samuel 16:10 to 11; Berean Standard Bible, 1 Samuel 17:12; Jamieson Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.