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1 Chronicles 2:52

in 1 Chronicles 2

These were the descendants of Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.

KJV

And Shobal the father of Kirjath–jearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 2

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And Shobal, the father of Kirjathjearim had sons,.... Which shows that Kirjathjearim is not the name of a man, or of any of Shobal's sons, who are next mentioned, but of a place of which he was prince: the first is Haroeh, who is called Reaiah, 1Ch 4:2 a word of the same signification: and half of the Manahethites; which Kimchi takes to be the proper name of a man called Chatzihamanaheth, another son of Shobal's; but Jarchi interprets it of the name of a place or province called Manahath, 1Ch 8:6 over half of which Haroeh was governor.

This site's exposition

Salma the father of Beth–lehem

on 1 Chronicles 2:51-55

Salma's sons found Bethlehem itself along with Netophah and other towns, closing Judah's genealogy where the royal line already led earlier in the chapter. The last verse names the scribes of Jabez as Kenites of the house of Rechab, the same clan Jeremiah 35 later holds up as an example of obedience, a people not of Israelite blood so bound to Judah by loyalty that Chronicles counts them within the tribe's own record.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

At every turn we meet with the twelve tribes that descended from these twelve patriarchs. The personal character of several of them was none of the best (the first four were much blemished), and yet the covenant was entailed on their seed; for it was of grace, free grace, that it was said, Jacob have I loved--not of works, lest any man should boast.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Shobal - had sons - “Disciples and priests, to whom belonged the half of the oblations.” - T.

The words behind it

9 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.

  • וַיִּהְי֤וּand they belonged

    vaiyihyuH1961 →3559 times

  • בָנִים֙sons

    vanimH1121 →4930 times

  • לְשׁוֹבָ֔לto Shobal

    leshovalH7732 →9 times

  • אֲבִ֖י[the] father of

    ʾaviH1 →1212 times

  • קִרְיַ֣תKiriath

    kiryatH7157 →39 times

  • יְעָרִ֑יםJearim

    yearimH7157 →39 times

  • הָרֹאֶ֖הHaroeh

    haroehH7204 →

  • חֲצִ֥יhalf

    chatziH2677 →125 times

  • הַמְּנֻחֽוֹת׃of <the> Menuchite[s]

    hamenuchotH4506 →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

3 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 Chronicles 4:2

    Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.

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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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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