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1 Chronicles 6:28

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The sons of Samuel: Joel his firstborn and Abijah his second son.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the sons of Samuel: the first-born, Joel, and the second Abijah.

KJV

And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The first-born Vashni, and Abiah - There is a great mistake in this verse: in 1Sa 8:2 we read, Now the name of his (Samuel’s) first-born was Joel; and the name of his second Abiah. The word יואל Joel is lost out of the text in this place, and ושני vesheni, which signifies the second, and which refers to Abiah, is made here into a proper name. The Septuagint, Vulgate, and Chaldee, copy this blunder; but the Syriac and Arabic read as in 1Sa 8:2. The MSS. have all copied the corrupted Hebrew in this place.

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 record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

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.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

It is now generally thought by the best critics that, through an error of the copyists, an omission has been made of the oldest son's name, and that Vashni, which is not the name of a person, merely signifies "and the second." This critical emendation of the text makes all clear, as well as consistent with other passages relating to the family of Samuel.
Vashni - The true name of Samuel’s first-born, which was “Joel” (see the margin and references), has here dropped out; and the word properly meaning “and his second (son)” has been taken as the name of the first.

The words behind it

6 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.

  • וּבְנֵ֧יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • שְׁמוּאֵ֛לSamuel

    shemuelH8050 →141 times

  • הַבְּכֹ֥רthe firstborn

    habekhorH1060 →122 times

  • וַשְׁנִ֖יsecond

    vashniH2059 →

  • וַאֲבִיָּֽה׃ סand Abijah

    vaaviyahH29 →25 times

  • יוֹאֵלJoel

    yoelH3100 →20 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

8 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 Chronicles 6:33

    These are the men who served, together with their sons. From the Kohathites:

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 15:17

      So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; from their brothers the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah;

    • 2 Chronicles 5:12

      all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.

    • 1 Chronicles 16:41–42

      With them were Heman, Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the LORD, for “His loving devotion endures forever.”

    • 1 Chronicles 15:19

      The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals.

    • 1 Samuel 1:20

      So in the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the LORD.”

  • Through

    1 Samuel 8:2

    The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second was Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 19:3

      And Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,

    • 1 Chronicles 6:38

      the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

    • Genesis 22:19

      Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.

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; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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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