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1 Chronicles 8:8

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Shaharaim had sons in the country of Moab after he had divorced his wives Hushim and Baara.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Shaharaim begat children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.

KJV

And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 8

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And Shaharaim,.... Who was either a son of Ahihud, or rather a brother of his, another son of Ehud: begat children in the country of Moab; whither he might go on account of the famine, as Elimelech did, Rth 1:1, after he had sent them away; which some understand of those that were removed from Geba to Manahath, 1Ch 8:6, but a different word is here used; and besides Shaharaim seems to be one of those that were removed.

This site's exposition

in the country of Moab

on 1 Chronicles 8:8-12

A rare narrative fragment breaks the name list: Shaharaim, having sent away his first household, fathers children in Moab by two more wives, and a line through his son Elpaal reaches two towns, Ono and Lod. Both towns reappear centuries later in the rosters of Benjamites who returned from exile, at Ezra 2:33 and Nehemiah 11:35, so a family founded here by a man who left the land for Moab is remembered again in the list of those who came back to it. Gill and Clarke both treat the record as genuine family history rather than scribal confusion, differing only on whether Hodesh names the same wife elsewhere called Baara or a separate woman.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

) of one that descended from him, that begat children in the country of Moab, which inclines me to think it was that Ehud who was the second of the judges of Israel; for he is said to be the son of Gera and a Benjamite ( Judg. iii.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

But, destitute of natural affection, he forsook or divorced his two wives, and in the land of his sojourn married a third, by whom he had several sons. But there is another explanation given of the conduct of this Benjamite polygamist. His children by Hushim are mentioned (1Ch 8:11), while his other wife is unnoticed.
After he had sent them away - Translate it: “after he had divorced his wives, Hushim and Baara.”

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וְשַׁחֲרַ֗יִםand Shaharaim

    veshacharayimH7842 →

  • הוֹלִיד֙he fathered

    holidH3205 →496 times

  • בִּשְׂדֵ֣הin [the] region of

    bisdehH7704 →334 times

  • מוֹאָ֔בMoab

    moavH4124 →181 times

  • מִן־from when

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • שִׁלְח֖וֹsent away he

    shilchoH7971 →845 times

  • אֹתָ֑ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • חוּשִׁ֥יםHushim

    chushimH2366 →4 times

  • וְאֶֽת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • בַּעֲרָ֖אBaara

    baara'H1199 →

  • נָשָֽׁיו׃wives his

    nashavH802 →781 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

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

    Ruth 1:1

    In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 12:10

      Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

    • Genesis 26:1

      Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

    • Ezekiel 14:13

      “Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to…

    • Judges 17:8

      This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.

    • Leviticus 26:19

      I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

  • Through

    Genesis 25:6

    But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 21:14

      Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of…

    • Judges 6:3

      Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

    • Acts 14:17

      Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

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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 & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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