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1 Chronicles 9:39

in 1 Chronicles 9

Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.

KJV

And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi–shua, and Abinadab, and Esh–baal.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 9

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the father of Gibeon

on 1 Chronicles 9:35-44

Saul's line repeats here from 1 Chronicles 8:29 to 38. Barnes reads the doubling as the seam that joins the genealogies to the history, which opens with Saul's death in chapter 10. The line runs past Jonathan through Merib-baal, called Mephibosheth in Samuel, and Micah down to Azel's six sons.

This site's exposition

Ner was the father of Kish

1 Samuel 14:51 names Kish and Ner as sons of Abiel, while this verse makes Ner the father of Kish. Esh-baal is the Ish-bosheth who reigned two years after Saul's death (2 Samuel 2:10). The two records stand side by side.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Let that judgment never be forgotten, but ever be remembered, for warning to posterity to take heed of those sins that brought it upon them. Whenever we speak of any calamity that has befallen us, it is good to add this, "it was for my transgression," that God may be justified and clear when he judges.

The words behind it

19 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.

  • וְנֵר֙and Ner

    venerH5369 →17 times

  • הוֹלִ֣ידhe fathered

    holidH3205 →496 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • קִ֔ישׁKish

    kishH7027 →21 times

  • וְקִ֖ישׁand Kish

    vekishH7027 →21 times

  • הוֹלִ֣ידhe fathered

    holidH3205 →496 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • שָׁא֑וּלSaul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

  • וְשָׁא֗וּלand Saul

    veshaulH7586 →402 times

  • הוֹלִ֤ידhe fathered

    holidH3205 →496 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יְהֽוֹנָתָן֙Jonathan

    yehonatanH3083 →81 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • מַלְכִּי־Malki-

    malki-H4444 →10 times

  • שׁ֔וּעַShua

    shua'H4444 →10 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • אֲבִינָדָ֖בAbinadab

    ʾavinadavH41 →12 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • אֶשְׁבָּֽעַל׃Eshbaal

    ʾeshbaalH792 →

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

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 13:22

    So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hands of the troops with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.

    it leads to

    • Judges 5:8

      When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.

    • Zechariah 4:6

      So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 10:2

    The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 57:1–2

      The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 14:1

    One day Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.” But Jonathan did not tell his father.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 13:2

      He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And…

    • 1 Samuel 25:19

      and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

    • 1 Samuel 14:39–45

      As surely as the LORD who saves Israel lives, even if it is my son Jonathan, he must die!” But not one of the troops said a word.

    • 2 Samuel 1:4–5

      “What was the outcome?” David asked. “Please tell me.” “The troops fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”

    • Judges 6:27

      So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did it…

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Berean Standard Bible, 1 Samuel 14:51; 2 Samuel 2:10; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.