1 Chronicles 9:41
in 1 Chronicles 9The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.
KJV
And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 9
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAnd Ahaz - This is added by our translators from 1Ch 8:35, but such liberties should only be taken in a note; for although the words are now sufficiently distinguished from the text by being printed in Italics, yet it is too much to expect that every editor of a Bible will attend to such distinctions, and in process of time the words will be found incorporated with the text. 1Ch 9:35, and the following verses, are a repetition of what we find in 1Ch 8:29-38 (note), where see the notes.
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.
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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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
6 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְנֵ֖י | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| מִיכָ֑ה | mikhah | Micah | H4318 → | 33 times |
| פִּית֥וֹן | piton | Pithon | H6377 → | |
| וָמֶ֖לֶךְ | vamelekh | and Melech | H4429 → | |
| וְתַחְרֵֽעַ׃ | vetachrea' | and Tahrea | H8475 → | |
| וְאָחָֽז׃ | veachaz | and Ahaz | H271 → | 42 times |
וּבְנֵ֖יand [the] sons of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
מִיכָ֑הMicah
mikhahH4318 →33 times
פִּית֥וֹןPithon
pitonH6377 →
וָמֶ֖לֶךְand Melech
vamelekhH4429 →
וְתַחְרֵֽעַ׃and Tahrea
vetachrea'H8475 →
וְאָחָֽז׃and Ahaz
veachazH271 →42 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.