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1 Chronicles 6:26

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Amasai, Ahimoth, Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

KJV

As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Gershom, &c.--This repetition (see 1Ch 6:1) is made, as the historian here begins to trace the genealogy of the Levitical families who were not priests. The list is a long one, comprising the chiefs or heads of their several families until David's reign, who made a new and different classification of them by courses.

This site's exposition

Gershom, Kohath, and Merari

on 1 Chronicles 6:16-30

The sons of Levi are named a second time to open the wider Levitical houses that did not descend from Aaron, and the list traces Gershom, Kohath, and Merari down toward David's own day. Kohath's branch is carried furthest, reaching Elkanah and Samuel the prophet, whose sons are recorded here under a name, Vashni, that Clarke and Jamieson Fausset and Brown both read as a copied Hebrew phrase for and the second rather than a proper name. Samuel never held the priesthood; his place in this family explains how a Levite living in Ephraim's hill country could judge Israel and anoint its first two kings.

The words behind it

7 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.

  • אֶלְקָנָ֑הElkanah

    ʾelkanahH511 →21 times

  • בְּנֵי֙[the] sons

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • אֶלְקָנָ֔הElkanah

    ʾelkanahH511 →21 times

  • צוֹפַ֥יZophai

    tzofaiH6689 →

  • בְּנ֖וֹson his

    benoH1121 →4930 times

  • וְנַ֥חַתand Nahath

    venachatH5184 →

  • בְּנֽוֹ׃son his

    benoH1121 →4930 times

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

Related verses

3 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

    1 Samuel 1:1

    Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of…

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 6:34

      Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

    • 1 Chronicles 6:25–27

      The descendants of Elkanah:

    • 1 Samuel 1:19

      The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered…

    • Ruth 1:2

      The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of…

    • Judges 17:1

      Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim

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; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.

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