1 Chronicles 3:7
in 1 Chronicles 3Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
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and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
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And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
these sons were born to him in Jerusalem
on 1 Chronicles 3:5-9
The Hebrew names the mother Bathshua daughter of Ammiel, and the older commentators read both names as transposed forms of Bathsheba and Eliam. Verse 9 closes the roster with Tamar, the only daughter of David the Bible names, beside sons born to concubines whose names are not recorded.
This site's exposition
Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia
Nogah, Nepheg, and Japhia were sons born to David in Jerusalem. Of these, only Nepheg and Japhia stand in 2 Samuel 5:15, while Nogah is named here and again in 1 Chronicles 14:6. Nothing else is recorded of them.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Probably the two former were dead, and therefore David called two more by their names, which he would not have done if there had been any ill omen in this practice as some fancy. David had many concubines; but their children are not named, as not worthy of the honour (
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The words behind it
3 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
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About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Berean Standard Bible, 2 Samuel 5:15; Berean Standard Bible, 1 Chronicles 14:6 and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.