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1 Chronicles 12:3

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Ahiezer their chief and Joash, who were the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The chief was Ahiezer; then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite, and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth, and Beracah, and Jehu the Anathothite,

KJV

The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite,

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 12

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The chief was Ahiezer

on 1 Chronicles 12:3-7

Seven names open the roster proper: Ahiezer and Joash from Gibeah, Saul's own city; Jeziel and Pelet, sons of Azmaveth; Berachah and Jehu of Anathoth, the town that will later give Judah the prophet Jeremiah. The name Jeremiah itself recurs three times across this chapter's lists, at verse four, verse ten and verse thirteen, and Chronicles distinguishes each man by city or by rank rather than by lineage. A chapter built almost entirely of names still tells a reader something plain: these defectors came from towns loyal to Saul's own house, and left it anyway.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Ziklag--(See on 1Sa 27:6). It was during his retirement in that Philistine town that he was joined in rapid succession by the heroes who afterwards contributed so much to the glory of his reign.

The words behind it

13 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.

  • הָרֹ֨אשׁthe chief

    haroshH7218 →599 times

  • אֲחִיעֶ֜זֶרAhiezer

    ʾachiezerH295 →

  • וְיוֹאָ֗שׁand Joash

    veyoashH3101 →47 times

  • בְּנֵי֙[the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • הַשְּׁמָעָ֣הthe Shemaahite

    hashemaahH8094 →

  • הַגִּבְעָתִ֔יthe Gibeathite

    hagivatiH1395 →

  • וִיזִיאֵ֥לand Jeziel

    vizuelH3149 →

  • וָפֶ֖לֶטand Pelet

    vafeletH6404 →

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • עַזְמָ֑וֶתAzmaveth

    ʾazmavetH5820 →8 times

  • וּבְרָכָ֕הand Berachah

    uverakhahH1294 →

  • וְיֵה֖וּאand Jehu

    veyehu'H3058 →58 times

  • הָעֲנְּתֹתִֽי׃the Anathothite

    haanetotiH6069 →5 times

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

Related verses

4 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 11:4

    When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 10:26

      Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Judges 2:4

      When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

    • 1 Samuel 30:4

      So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.

    • Judges 21:2

      So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.

    • 1 Samuel 15:34

      Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 21:6

    let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,”…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 10:24

      Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

    • Numbers 25:4–5

      Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 11:28

    Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 27:12

      The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer the Anathothite, a Benjamite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.

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