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1 Chronicles 5:14

in 1 Chronicles 5

These were the sons of Abihail son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

KJV

These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

This verse in 1 Chronicles 5

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

dwelt over against them

on 1 Chronicles 5:11-17

Gad settled across from Reuben in Bashan, the tableland running to Salchah, and verse 17 says the line was reckoned twice over, once under Jotham king of Judah and once under Jeroboam king of Israel. Barnes reads the double dating as a sign that Judah still exercised some claim over the tribes east of Jordan in that period, even after the kingdom split. Gad's towns reached into the suburbs of Sharon, a name shared with the coastal plain near Joppa but here marking a district of Bashan itself.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri,.... That is, the seven before mentioned; they were the posterity of Abihail, whose pedigree is traced from his father Huri to Buz, the intermediate progenitors being Jaroah, Gilead, Michael, Jeshishai, Jahdo.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the children of Gad dwelt over against them--The genealogy of the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh (1Ch 5:24) is given along with that of the Reubenites, as these three were associated in a separate colony.

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

And their brothers to the house of their fathers in the place of their genealogy.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 5:13:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
Chief of their clan. [This refers] either to Abdiel or to his father Guni.
Radak: Provence, 1160–1235 · Radak on I Chronicles 5:15:1, via Sefaria, The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007

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

17 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.

  • אֵ֣לֶּה׀these

    ʾelehH428746 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[were] [the] sons of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • אֲבִיחַ֗יִלAbihail

    ʾavichayilH32

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • חוּרִ֡יHuri

    churiH2359

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • יָ֠רוֹחַJaroah

    yaroachH3386

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • גִּלְעָ֧דGilead

    giladH1568134 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • מִיכָאֵ֛לMichael

    mikhaelH431713 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • יְשִׁישַׁ֥יJeshishai

    yeshishaiH3454

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • יַחְדּ֖וֹJahdo

    yachdoH3163

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • בּֽוּז׃Buz

    buzH938

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

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.

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