1 Chronicles 3:8
in 1 Chronicles 3Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet—nine in all.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
KJV
And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 3
Commentary
6 notes on this verseNine - There are thirteen if we count the four sons of Bath-sheba, and nine without them; and in the second book of Samuel there are eleven, reckoning the above four, and without them only seven. In the book of Samuel probably only those who were alive were reckoned, while the author of the Chronicles comprises those also who were dead in this enumeration.
This 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
Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet
Clarke works the count: nine here, thirteen with Bathsheba's four, against eleven in 2 Samuel. He takes Samuel to list only the sons then living, and Chronicles to include those who had died. The second Eliphelet repeats the name of verse 6.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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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Nine - There are but seven mentioned, 2 Sam. v, 14. Two of them are omitted there, because they died very early, and here we have all the sons of David, which clause is not added 2 Sam. v,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
nine--The number of David's sons born after his removal to Jerusalem, was eleven (2Sa 5:14), but only nine are mentioned here: two of them being omitted, either in consequence of their early deaths or because they left no issue.
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The words behind it
4 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וֶאֱלִישָׁמָ֧ע | veelishama' | and Elishama | H476 → | 17 times |
| וְאֶלְיָדָ֛ע | veelyada' | and Eliada | H450 → | |
| וֶאֱלִיפֶ֖לֶט | veelifelet | and Eliphelet | H467 → | 9 times |
| תִּשְׁעָֽה׃ | tishah | nine | H8672 → | 58 times |
וֶאֱלִישָׁמָ֧עand Elishama
veelishama'H476 →17 times
וְאֶלְיָדָ֛עand Eliada
veelyada'H450 →
וֶאֱלִיפֶ֖לֶטand Eliphelet
veelifeletH467 →9 times
תִּשְׁעָֽה׃nine
tishahH8672 →58 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
1 stopEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Chronicles 14:7Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 5:16
Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
- 2 Samuel 5:16
Where this verse is studied
On this page
Studies1
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.