2 Chronicles 11:19
in 2 Chronicles 11She bore sons to him: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.
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ASV
and she bare him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.
KJV
Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 11
Commentary
4 notes on this verseWhich bare him children,.... Or, "and she bore him" (d); for it is said only of one of them, the other perhaps died without children; this may refer to the last mentioned, Abihail, whose children were Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham; who perhaps all died in their father's lifetime, since the firstborn of a later wife succeeded him. (d) ותלד "peperit", Pagninus, Montanus.
This site's exposition
Rehoboam married Mahalath
on 2 Chronicles 11:18-19
Rehoboam's first named wife comes from David's family: Mahalath is “the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of Abihail, the daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab”. The marriage ties the throne's new branch by blood to the old one on both sides, a family record Kings does not carry.
This site's exposition
She bore sons to him
Gill observes that the bearing of sons is said of one wife only, and he allows that it may refer to Abihail, the last named. The sons were Jeush, Shemariah and Zaham. Gill suggests they died in their father's lifetime, since Abijah son of Maacah, a later wife, became king.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
They had formerly sat loose to that family ( 2 Sam. xx. 1, 2 ), and now they quite threw it off, not considering how much it would weaken the common interest and take Israel down from that pitch of glory at which it had arrived in the last reign. But thus the kingdom must be corrected as well as the house of David.
The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַתֵּ֥לֶד | vateled | and she bore | H3205 → | 496 times |
| ל֖וֹ | lo | to him | ||
| בָּנִ֑ים | banim | sons | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יְע֥וּשׁ | yeush | Jeush | H3266 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שְׁמַרְיָ֖ה | shemaryah | Shemariah | H8114 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| זָֽהַם׃ | zaham | Zaham | H2093 → |
וַתֵּ֥לֶדand she bore
vateledH3205 →496 times
ל֖וֹto him
lo
בָּנִ֑יםsons
banimH1121 →4930 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יְע֥וּשׁJeush
yeushH3266 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
שְׁמַרְיָ֖הShemariah
shemaryahH8114 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
זָֽהַם׃Zaham
zahamH2093 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.