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1 Samuel 14:51

in 1 Samuel 14

Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

KJV

And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

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This verse in 1 Samuel 14

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
But what does it mean that he is called a cousin of Saul? A cousin is one who is born from the brother of one's father. Hence here too it is added: 'Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.' And when a king to be chosen was sought, it was said: "And there was a man named Kish, the son of Abiel" (1 Samuel 9:1).

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone. 4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture

And Kish was the father of Saul,.... See 1Sa 9:1. and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel; this Abiel was the father both of Kish and Ner, and the grandfather of Saul, see 1Sa 9:1.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Read, “And Kish the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner, were the sons of Abiel.” Ner was Saul’s uncle.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וְקִ֧ישׁand Kish

    vekishH7027 →21 times

  • אֲבִֽי־[was] [the] father of

    ʾavi-H1 →1212 times

  • שָׁא֛וּלSaul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

  • וְנֵ֥רand Ner

    venerH5369 →17 times

  • אֲבִֽי־[the] father of

    ʾavi-H1 →1212 times

  • אַבְנֵ֖רAbner

    ʾavnerH74 →63 times

  • בֶּן־[was] [the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אֲבִיאֵֽל׃ סAbiel

    ʾavielH22 →

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

Related verses

2 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 9:1

    Now there was a Benjamite, a powerful man, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin.

    it leads to

    • Acts 13:21

      Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.

    • 1 Chronicles 9:36–39

      Abdon was his firstborn son, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,

    • 1 Samuel 25:2

      Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

    • 1 Chronicles 8:30–33

      and Abdon was his firstborn son, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,

  • Through

    1 Samuel 9:21

    Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 15:17

      And Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, have you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel

    • Psalms 68:27

      There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them, the princes of Judah in their company, the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.

    • Ephesians 3:8

      Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

    • Luke 14:11

      For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Samuel

Anointing of David by Samuel, Félix-Joseph Barrias, 1842, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Public domain.
Anointing of David by Samuel, Félix-Joseph Barrias, 1842, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Public domain.
1 Samuel: the study guide →Read 1 Samuel 14 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 4; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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