1 Chronicles 1:28
in 1 Chronicles 1The sons of Abraham were Isaac and Ishmael.
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ASV
The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.
KJV
The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 1
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Isaac and Ishmael - Isaac, though younger than Ishmael, is placed first, as the legitimate heir, since Sarah alone was Abraham’s true wife (compare the 1Ch 1:36 note).
This site's exposition
The sons of Abraham
on 1 Chronicles 1:28-34
The Chronicler's sorting rule shows itself: Ishmael's twelve princes and Keturah's sons are listed first and finished, and then the line the book cares about is taken up last, and Abraham begat Isaac. The non-elect branches are honored with their names and dismissed from the story in the same breath, the pattern Genesis itself set with its toledoth and Esau's list before Jacob's. Nothing is said against the other sons; they are simply not where this book is going.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
The sons of Abraham,.... The famous and well known ancestor of the Jews; of Ishmael his firstborn, and his posterity; of his sons by Keturah; and of Isaac and his sons, an account is given from hence to the end of 1Ch 1:34 entirely agreeing with that in Gen 25:1.
The words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵי֙ | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אַבְרָהָ֔ם | ʾavraham | Abraham | H85 → | 175 times |
| יִצְחָ֖ק | yitzchak | Isaac | H3327 → | 108 times |
| וְיִשְׁמָעֵֽאל׃ ס | veyishmael | and Ishmael | H3458 → | 48 times |
בְּנֵי֙[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
אַבְרָהָ֔םAbraham
ʾavrahamH85 →175 times
יִצְחָ֖קIsaac
yitzchakH3327 →108 times
וְיִשְׁמָעֵֽאל׃ סand Ishmael
veyishmaelH3458 →48 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach 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
Genesis 21:12But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
it leads to
- Hebrews 11:18
even though God had said to him, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
- Romans 9:7–8
Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
- Genesis 17:19
But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after…
- 1 Samuel 8:7
And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as…
- 1 Samuel 8:9
Now listen to them, but you must solemnly warn them and show them the manner of the king who will reign over them.”
- Hebrews 11:18
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Chronicles
Who and where
3 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonPatriarchsIshmaelAbraham's son by Hagar — blessed and made a great nation, but not the covenant heir; Paul's figure of the flesh (Gal 4:21–31).
- PersonPatriarchsAbrahamCalled out of Ur, the father of all who believe, justified by faith, and the friend of God through whose seed all nations are bles…
- PersonPatriarchsIsaacThe son of promise and of laughter — bound on Moriah, the quiet inheritor of the covenant.
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).