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1 Samuel 14:51

in 1 Samuel 14

Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

KJV

And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

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This verse in 1 Samuel 14

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
But what does it mean that he is called a cousin of Saul? A cousin is one who is born from the brother of one's father. Hence here too it is added: 'Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.' And when a king to be chosen was sought, it was said: "And there was a man named Kish, the son of Abiel" (1 Samuel 9:1).

This site's exposition

the names of his two daughters were these

on 1 Samuel 14:49-51

The family list names Merab and Michal, daughters whose fates the story has not yet reached: Merab is promised to Goliath's slayer at 17:25 and given to another man at 18:19, and Michal becomes David's wife and loses him to Saul's jealousy. Abner the captain of the host is here identified as the son of Ner, Saul's own uncle, which makes Abner the king's cousin and explains the loyalty that carries Saul's house into the war that follows his death. The list is plain record, but every name in it reappears later in the book.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone. 4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture

And Kish was the father of Saul,.... See 1Sa 9:1. and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel; this Abiel was the father both of Kish and Ner, and the grandfather of Saul, see 1Sa 9:1.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Read, “And Kish the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner, were the sons of Abiel.” Ner was Saul’s uncle.

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.

  • וְקִ֧ישׁand Kish

    vekishH7027 →21 times

  • אֲבִֽי־[was] [the] father of

    ʾavi-H1 →1212 times

  • שָׁא֛וּלSaul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

  • וְנֵ֥רand Ner

    venerH5369 →17 times

  • אֲבִֽי־[the] father of

    ʾavi-H1 →1212 times

  • אַבְנֵ֖רAbner

    ʾavnerH74 →63 times

  • בֶּן־[was] [the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אֲבִיאֵֽל׃ סAbiel

    ʾavielH22 →

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 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.

    it leads to

    • 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.

    • 1 Chronicles 9:36–39

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

    • 1 Samuel 25:2

      Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

    • 1 Chronicles 8:30–33

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

  • Through

    1 Samuel 9:21

    Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 15:17

      And Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, have you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel

    • Psalms 68:27

      There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them, the princes of Judah in their company, the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.

    • Ephesians 3:8

      Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

    • Luke 14:11

      For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Where this verse is studied

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Studies1

About 1 Samuel

David Slays Goliath, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Slays Goliath, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
1 Samuel: the study guide →Read 1 Samuel 14 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 4; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Books of Samuel and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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