1 Chronicles 11:39
in 1 Chronicles 11Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah,
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ASV
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armorbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
KJV
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 11
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Naharai--armorbearer to Joab (2Sa 23:37). The non-occurrence of Joab's name in any of the three catalogues is most probably to be accounted for by the circumstance that his office as commander-in-chief raised him to a position superior to all these orders of military knighthood.
This site's exposition
the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah
on 1 Chronicles 11:39-41
Naharai carries Joab's armor, and the text never once places Joab's own name in any of the three catalogues of honor, his rank as commander already set above the classes they list. The roll's last parallel name is Uriah the Hittite, whose wife and death fill 2 Sam 11 in ugly detail; Chronicles, which omits David's sin with Bathsheba entirely, still cannot omit Uriah from the honor he earned among the mighty men. The silence around what became of him is the same selective hand that shapes the whole book, working here on a single name inside a list.
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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the L ORD ; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the L ORD by Samuel. 4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
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The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| צֶ֖לֶק | tzelek | Zelek | H6768 → | |
| הָעַמּוֹנִ֑י | haamoni | the Ammonite | H5984 → | |
| נַחְרַי֙ | nachrai | Naharai | H5171 → | |
| הַבֵּ֣רֹתִ֔י | haberoti | the Beerothite | H1307 → | |
| נֹשֵׂ֕א | nose' | [the] bearer | H5375 → | 656 times |
| כְּלֵ֖י | kelei | of [the] weapons of | H3627 → | 325 times |
| יוֹאָ֥ב | yoav | Joab | H3097 → | 144 times |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| צְרוּיָֽה׃ ס | tzeruyah | Zeruiah | H6870 → | 26 times |
צֶ֖לֶקZelek
tzelekH6768 →
הָעַמּוֹנִ֑יthe Ammonite
haamoniH5984 →
נַחְרַי֙Naharai
nachraiH5171 →
הַבֵּ֣רֹתִ֔יthe Beerothite
haberotiH1307 →
נֹשֵׂ֕א[the] bearer
nose'H5375 →656 times
כְּלֵ֖יof [the] weapons of
keleiH3627 →325 times
יוֹאָ֥בJoab
yoavH3097 →144 times
בֶּן־[the] son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
צְרוּיָֽה׃ סZeruiah
tzeruyahH6870 →26 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.