1 Chronicles 9:44

in 1 Chronicles 9

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

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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

14 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.

Hebrew	Sound	Meaning	Word study	In the Bible
וּלְאָצֵל֮	uleatzel	and [belonged] to Azel	H682 →	7 times
שִׁשָּׁ֣ה	shishah	six	H8337 →	216 times
בָנִים֒	vanim	sons	H1121 →	4930 times
וְאֵ֣לֶּה	veeleh	and these	H428 →	746 times
שְׁמוֹתָ֗ם	shemotam	[are] names their	H8034 →	864 times
עַזְרִיקָ֥ם׀	ʾazrikam	Azrikam	H5840 →	6 times
בֹּ֙כְרוּ֙	bokheru	Bocheru	H1074 →
וְיִשְׁמָעֵ֣אל	veyishmael	and Ishmael	H3458 →	48 times
וּשְׁעַרְיָ֔ה	ushearyah	and Sheariah	H8187 →
וְעֹבַדְיָ֖ה	veoadyah	and Obadiah	H5662 →	20 times
וְחָנָ֑ן	vechanan	and Hanan	H2605 →	12 times
אֵ֖לֶּה	ʾeleh	these	H428 →	746 times
בְּנֵ֥י	benei	[were] [the] sons of	H1121 →	4930 times
אָצַֽל׃ פ	ʾatzal	Azel	H682 →	7 times