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1 Chronicles 6:26

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Amasai, Ahimoth, Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

KJV

As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Gershom, &c.--This repetition (see 1Ch 6:1) is made, as the historian here begins to trace the genealogy of the Levitical families who were not priests. The list is a long one, comprising the chiefs or heads of their several families until David's reign, who made a new and different classification of them by courses.

This site's exposition

Gershom, Kohath, and Merari

on 1 Chronicles 6:16-30

Kohath's branch is carried furthest, reaching Elkanah and Samuel. For Samuel's sons the Hebrew has Vashni, which Clarke and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read as a copied Hebrew phrase for and the second. Samuel's place in this family explains how a Levite living in Ephraim's hill country could judge Israel.

This site's exposition

Amasai, Ahimoth, Elkanah his son

Heman's descent at verses 34 and 35 gives Ahimoth as Mahath, Zophai as Zuph and Nahath as Toah. 1 Samuel 1:1 names the same ancestor Tohu and traces Elkanah's line back to Zuph. Saul found Samuel in Zuph (1 Samuel 9:5).

The words behind it

7 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.

  • אֶלְקָנָ֑הElkanah

    ʾelkanahH511 →21 times

  • בְּנֵי֙[the] sons

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • אֶלְקָנָ֔הElkanah

    ʾelkanahH511 →21 times

  • צוֹפַ֥יZophai

    tzofaiH6689 →

  • בְּנ֖וֹson his

    benoH1121 →4930 times

  • וְנַ֥חַתand Nahath

    venachatH5184 →

  • בְּנֽוֹ׃son his

    benoH1121 →4930 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 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 1:1

    Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of…

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 6:34

      Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

    • 1 Chronicles 6:25–27

      The descendants of Elkanah:

    • 1 Samuel 1:19

      The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered…

    • Ruth 1:2

      The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of…

    • Judges 17:1

      Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Berean Standard Bible, 1 Chronicles 6:34 to 35; 1 Samuel 1:1; 1 Samuel 9:5; 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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