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1 Chronicles 4:17

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The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

KJV

And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 4

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
She bare Miriam - Rather, “she conceived.” The mother is not mentioned, and it seems impossible to restore the original text with any certainty.

This site's exposition

Chelub the brother of Shuhah

on 1 Chronicles 4:11-20

This unit gathers several branches of Judah's families, among them the people of Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen. Verse 18 records a marriage told nowhere else, of an Egyptian princess in Judah's genealogy: These were the children of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah.

This site's exposition

The sons of Ezrah

Ezrah's four sons open a difficult passage. Barnes judges that the original text of verses 17 and 18 cannot be restored with certainty. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown move part of verse 18 so that Bithiah, Pharaoh's daughter and Mered's wife, gave birth to Miriam.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the sons of Ezra,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

17, 18. she bare Miriam--It is difficult, as the verses stand at present, to see who is meant. The following readjustment of the text clears away the obscurity: "These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took, and she bare Miriam, and his wife Jehudijah bare Jezreel," &c.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וּבֶן־and [the] son of

    uven-H1121 →4930 times

  • עֶזְרָ֔הEzrah

    ʾezrahH5834 →

  • יֶ֥תֶרJether

    yeterH3500 →9 times

  • וּמֶ֖רֶדand Mered

    umeredH4778 →

  • וְעֵ֣פֶרand Epher

    veeferH6081 →4 times

  • וְיָל֑וֹןand Jalon

    veyalonH3210 →

  • וַתַּ֙הַר֙and she conceived

    vataharH2029 →

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מִרְיָ֣םMiriam

    miryamH4813 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • שַׁמַּ֔יShammai

    shamaiH8060 →6 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • יִשְׁבָּ֖חIshbah

    yishbachH3431 →

  • אֲבִ֥י[the] father of

    ʾaviH1 →1212 times

  • אֶשְׁתְּמֹֽעַ׃Eshtemoa

    ʾeshtemoa'H851 →6 times

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

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 Samuel 30:28

    to those in Aroer, Siphmoth, and Eshtemoa;

    it leads to

    • Joshua 15:50

      Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,

    • Joshua 13:16

      The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau beyond Medeba,

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 4:19

    The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and of Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 15:44

      Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah—nine cities, along with their villages.

    • 1 Samuel 23:1–13

      Now it was reported to David, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and looting the threshing floors.”

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 21:24

    “No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 16:16–17

      Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast…

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 6:57

    So the descendants of Aaron were given Hebron (a city of refuge), Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa,

    it leads to

    • Joshua 21:13–14

      So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave these cities, together with their pasturelands: Hebron, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah,

    • Joshua 15:48

      These were in the hill country:

    • Joshua 21:19

      In all, thirteen cities, together with their pasturelands, were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

Where this verse is studied

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About 1 Chronicles

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King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and 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 (1748-1763).

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