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1 Chronicles 8:26

in 1 Chronicles 8

Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,

KJV

And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,

This verse in 1 Chronicles 8

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
And Shamsherai,.... Who, with those next mentioned: Shehariah, Athaliah, Jaresiah, Eliah, and Zichri, were the sons of Jeroham, who perhaps is the same with Jerimoth, another son of Elpaal, 1Ch 8:14 who makes a considerable figure in this genealogy. Kimchi observes that it is a tradition (q) that this Eliah is Elijah the prophet, who was of the seed of Rachel. (q) Shemoth Rabba, sect. 40. fol. 138. 4.

This site's exposition

who drove away the inhabitants of Gath

on 1 Chronicles 8:13-27

Beriah and Shema, heads of Aijalon, carry the list's one act of war: they drove the inhabitants out of Gath, which Gill reads as payment for what Gath's neighbors had done to Ephraim at 7:21. The roll then runs the sons of Elpaal, Shimhi and Shashak through many verses of names with no further narrative, though Gill passes on a late tradition, traced to Kimchi, identifying one Eliah among them with Elijah the prophet, of the seed of Rachel. Fourteen verses carry the tribe's spread across Aijalon and its towns on the strength of one remembered clash and little else.

The words behind it

3 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.

  • וְשַׁמְשְׁרַ֥יand Shamsherai

    veshamsheraiH8125

  • וּשְׁחַרְיָ֖הand Shechariah

    ushecharyahH7841

  • וַעֲתַלְיָֽה׃and Athaliah

    vaatalyahH6271

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.