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1 Chronicles 8:38

in 1 Chronicles 8

Azel had six sons, and these were their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

KJV

And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 8

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the sons of Micah were

on 1 Chronicles 8:35-40

Micah's line runs six generations past him, Jehoadah to Azel, and Azel's own six sons are named individually rather than folded into a summary, an unusual density this late in a Benjamite roll. The record does not stop at Saul's death on Gilboa or at David's dynasty replacing his house; it keeps counting fathers and sons long after the kingdom left this family, evidence the compiler still held records for a line whose claim to the throne was long over. The chapter closes on Ulam's sons, archers and mighty men of valour a hundred and fifty strong, and Henry reads the note as praise for service rather than for rank, a family remembered for usefulness once the crown was gone from it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bochim, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan,.... Which make the said number: all these were the sons of Azel; his family was large.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

They are Jasher, Jeshurun--just ones, and the memory of the just is blessed. Many of these we have reason to fear, came short of everlasting honour (for even the wicked kings of Judah come into the genealogy), yet the perpetuating of their names here was a figure of the writing of the names of all God's spiritual Israel in the Lamb's book of life.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וּלְאָצֵל֮and [belonged] to Azel

    uleatzelH682 →7 times

  • שִׁשָּׁ֣הsix

    shishahH8337 →216 times

  • בָנִים֒sons

    vanimH1121 →4930 times

  • וְאֵ֣לֶּהand these

    veelehH428 →746 times

  • שְׁמוֹתָ֗ם[are] names their

    shemotamH8034 →864 times

  • עַזְרִיקָ֥ם׀Azrikam

    ʾazrikamH5840 →6 times

  • בֹּ֙כְרוּ֙Bocheru

    bokheruH1074 →

  • וְיִשְׁמָעֵ֣אלand Ishmael

    veyishmaelH3458 →48 times

  • וּשְׁעַרְיָ֔הand Sheariah

    ushearyahH8187 →

  • וְעֹבַדְיָ֖הand Obadiah

    veoadyahH5662 →20 times

  • וְחָנָ֑ןand Hanan

    vechananH2605 →12 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֵ֖לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[were] [the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • אָצַֽל׃Azel

    ʾatzalH682 →7 times

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.
1 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 1 Chronicles 8 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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