1 Chronicles 6:28
The sons of Samuel: Joel his firstborn and Abijah his second son.
BSB
ASV
And the sons of Samuel: the first-born, Joel, and the second Abijah.
KJV
And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.
The first-born Vashni, and Abiah - There is a great mistake in this verse: in 1Sa 8:2 we read, Now the name of his (Samuel’s) first-born was Joel; and the name of his second Abiah. The word יואל Joel is lost out of the text in this place, and ושני vesheni, which signifies the second, and which refers to Abiah, is made here into a proper name. The Septuagint, Vulgate, and Chaldee, copy this blunder; but the Syriac and Arabic read as in 1Sa 8:2. The MSS. have all copied the corrupted Hebrew in this place.
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.
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1 Chronicles 6:33These are the men who served, together with their sons. From the Kohathites:
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So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; from their brothers the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah;
all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.
With them were Heman, Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the LORD, for “His loving devotion endures forever.”
The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals.
So in the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the LORD.”
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1 Samuel 8:2The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second was Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.
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And Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,
the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.