1 Chronicles 3:7
in 1 Chronicles 3Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
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and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
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And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
born unto him in Jerusalem
on 1 Chronicles 3:5-9
The four sons born to Bathsheba appear here under the name Bathshua, daughter of Ammiel, spellings the old commentators read as transposed forms of Bathsheba and Eliam rather than a different woman. Verse 9 closes the roster by naming Tamar, the only daughter of David the Bible ever names, set beside sons born to concubines whose names Chronicles does not record. Solomon stands fourth of the four, the son this book will trace through sixteen generations to the exile and beyond.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Probably the two former were dead, and therefore David called two more by their names, which he would not have done if there had been any ill omen in this practice as some fancy. David had many concubines; but their children are not named, as not worthy of the honour (
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The words behind it
3 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.
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.