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1 Chronicles 9:36

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Abdon was his firstborn son, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,

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ASV

and his first-born son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,

KJV

And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 9

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the father of Gibeon

on 1 Chronicles 9:35-44

Saul's line repeats here nearly word for word from 8:29-38, and the repetition is deliberate: the Chronicler closes his genealogies by picking up the very family whose death opens the narrative history in chapter 10, Barnes reading the doubling as the seam joining the book's two halves together. The line runs generations past Jonathan through Merib-baal, called Mephibosheth in Samuel, and Micah down to Azel's six sons, keeping a defeated dynasty's descendants on record long after the kingdom passed to David's house. Saul receives here what Chronicles gives every line it names, a place kept in the record, before chapter 10 gives him the verdict Samuel had left unstated.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Let that judgment never be forgotten, but ever be remembered, for warning to posterity to take heed of those sins that brought it upon them. Whenever we speak of any calamity that has befallen us, it is good to add this, "it was for my transgression," that God may be justified and clear when he judges.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וּבְנ֥וֹand son his

    uvenoH1121 →4930 times

  • הַבְּכ֖וֹרthe firstborn

    habekhorH1060 →122 times

  • עַבְדּ֑וֹן[was] Abdon

    avdonH5658 →8 times

  • וְצ֣וּרand Zur

    vetzurH6698 →

  • וְקִ֔ישׁand Kish

    vekishH7027 →21 times

  • וּבַ֥עַלand Baal

    uvaalH1168 →82 times

  • וְנֵ֖רand Ner

    venerH5369 →17 times

  • וְנָדָֽב׃and Nadab

    venadavH5070 →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 8:33

    Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 31:2

      The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Samuel 9:1

      Now there was a Benjamite, a powerful man, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin.

    • 1 Samuel 14:49–51

      Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 2:8

      Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,

    • Acts 13:21

      Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 9:39

    Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 13:22

      So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hands of the troops with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.

    • 1 Chronicles 8:33–38

      Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

    • 1 Samuel 14:1

      One day Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.” But Jonathan did not tell his father.

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 Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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