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1 Chronicles 4:13

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The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel: Hathath.

KJV

And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 4

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
And the sons of Kenaz,.... Who was either the son of Chelub, or of Eshton: Othniel, and Seraiah; the first of these is he who is mentioned, Jos 15:17 and was the first judge in Israel: and the son of Othniel, Hathath; and the next mentioned.

This site's exposition

the brother of Shuah begat Mehir

on 1 Chronicles 4:11-20

This unit gathers several branches of Caleb's descendants, including the craftsmen of the valley of Charashim at verse fourteen, carpenters and smiths named for their trade rather than for any deed. Verse eighteen preserves an otherwise unrecorded marriage, Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh taken by a descendant of Caleb, an Egyptian princess grafted into Judah's genealogy without further comment. Most of the names in this stretch occur nowhere else in Scripture, which is part of what these chapters are doing, keeping every family on record even where no story survives to go with the name.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

The sons of Kenaz: Othniel. Even though the text had not mentioned Kenaz, it mentions his lines, as we have written (v. 11).
Radak: Provence, 1160–1235 · Radak on I Chronicles 4:13:1, via Sefaria, The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
the leader of Ir Nahash the name of a city, and Tehinnah (was) its leader.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 4:12:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
And Seraiah begot Joab, the leader of Gei Harashim Joab was the leader of a valley in which there were craftsmen. Now why do I call it the Valley of Craftsmen? Because they were craftsmen; i.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 4:14:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • קְנַ֔זKenaz

    kenazH7073 →11 times

  • עָתְנִיאֵ֖לOthniel

    ʾatenielH6274 →7 times

  • וּשְׂרָיָ֑הand Seraiah

    userayahH8304 →20 times

  • וּבְנֵ֥יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • עָתְנִיאֵ֖לOthniel

    ʾatenielH6274 →7 times

  • חֲתַֽת׃Hathath

    chatatH2867 →

  • וּמְעוֹנֹתַי׃and Meonothai

    umeonotaiH4587 →

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

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The walk

5 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

    Judges 1:13

    So Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

    it leads to

    • Judges 3:9

      But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Joshua 15:17

    So Othniel son of Caleb’s brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

    it leads to

    • Judges 1:13

      So Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

    • Judges 3:11

      So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.

    • Joshua 14:6

      Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about…

    • 1 Chronicles 2:49

      She was also the mother of Shaaph father of Madmannah, and of Sheva father of Machbenah and Gibea. Caleb’s daughter was Acsah.

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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 Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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