1 Chronicles 2:54
in 1 Chronicles 2The descendants of Salma:
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
KJV
The sons of Salma; Beth–lehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 2
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis 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 Awakening2 voices
The sons of Salma,....
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 Century2 voices
The sons of Salma - “The righteous Bethlehemites, who had a good name, as the Netophathites, who removed the guards which Jeroboam had placed in the way lest the people should carry the first-fruits to Jerusalem: for the sons of Salma carried baskets full of first-fruits privately to Jerusalem; and having cloven wood, they made ladders, and brought them to Jerusalem to be laid up in Beth-mokad for oblations.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Ataroth, the house of Joab - Rather, “Ataroth-beth-Joab,” probably so called, to distinguish it from Ataroth-Adar, a city of Benjamin Jos 18:13. It is uncertain from what Joab it derived its distinctive appellation.
The words behind it
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| שַׂלְמָ֗א | salma' | Salma | H8007 → | 4 times |
| בֵּ֥ית | beit | Beth- | H1035 → | 82 times |
| לֶ֙חֶם֙ | lechem | -lehem | H1035 → | 82 times |
| וּנְט֣וֹפָתִ֔י | unetofati | and [the] Netophathite[s] | H5200 → | 11 times |
| עַטְר֖וֹת | atrot | Atroth | H5854 → | 3 times |
| בֵּ֣ית | beit | Beth- | H5854 → | 3 times |
| יוֹאָ֑ב | yoav | Joab | H5854 → | 3 times |
| וַחֲצִ֥י | vachatzi | and [the] half of | H2677 → | 125 times |
| הַמָּנַחְתִּ֖י | hamanachti | the Manahathite[s] | H4506 → | 5 times |
| הַצָּרְעִֽי׃ | hatzarei | the Zorite[s] | H6882 → | 3 times |
בְּנֵ֣י[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
שַׂלְמָ֗אSalma
salma'H8007 →4 times
בֵּ֥יתBeth-
beitH1035 →82 times
לֶ֙חֶם֙-lehem
lechemH1035 →82 times
וּנְט֣וֹפָתִ֔יand [the] Netophathite[s]
unetofatiH5200 →11 times
עַטְר֖וֹתAtroth
atrotH5854 →3 times
בֵּ֣יתBeth-
beitH5854 →3 times
יוֹאָ֑בJoab
yoavH5854 →3 times
וַחֲצִ֥יand [the] half of
vachatziH2677 →125 times
הַמָּנַחְתִּ֖יthe Manahathite[s]
hamanachtiH4506 →5 times
הַצָּרְעִֽי׃the Zorite[s]
hatzareiH6882 →3 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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
1 Chronicles 11:30Maharai the Netophathite, Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite,
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 27:15
The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, from the family of Othniel. There were 24,000 men in his division.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Chronicles 27:15
Through
Nehemiah 12:28The singers were also assembled from the region around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites,
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 9:16
Obadiah son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
- Nehemiah 6:2
Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.
- 1 Chronicles 9:16
Through
2 Samuel 23:29Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites,
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 11:30–31
Maharai the Netophathite, Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite,
- Joshua 18:28
Zelah, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities, along with their villages. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.
- 1 Chronicles 11:30–31
Through
Ezra 2:22the men of Netophah, 56;
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 23:28
Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
- Jeremiah 40:8
they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite—they and their…
- Nehemiah 7:26
the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;
- 2 Samuel 23:28
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.