1 Chronicles 2:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. ”

• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Sisters - i. e. half-sisters. Abigail and Zeruiah were daughters not of Jesse, but of a certain Nahash, whose widow Jesse took to wife 2 Samuel 17:25 . From the present passage, and from the f...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). Genealogical Lists, together with Geographical and Historical Notes. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogi...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Zeruiah. Sister of David. Nahash ( 2 Samuel 17:25 ) may have been the father of Jesse's wife. Otherwise, she and Abigail were half-sisters.

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. Here the sons are mentioned by the mother's li...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Genealogies (continued) The genealogies in this chapter comprise the descendants of Isaac through Israel (Jacob), and the descendants of Judah.

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (9-41) The Hezronites, who were sons of Pharez ( 1 Chronicles 2:5 ), and their three lines of descent, Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  NAMES 1 Chronicles 1:1-54 ; 1 Chronicles 2:1-55 ; 1 Chronicles 3:1-24 ; 1 Chronicles 4:1-43 ; 1 Chronicles 5:1-26 ; 1 Chronicles 6:1-81 ; 1 Chronicles 7:1-40 ; 1 Chronicles 8:1-40 ; 1 Chr...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Still the same method is manifest. The twelve sons of Israel are mentioned. All of them are subsequently referred to, with the exception of Dan and Zebulun, of whose descendants this chronicler gives...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  If the Reader be desirous to attend to the history of some of the persons here registered, he will find an account of them elsewhere in the Bible. But many of them are only mentioned in this record,...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail ..... That is, sisters of David: and the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three ; all valiant men and captains in David's army; their father's...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Whose sisters [were] Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. Ver. 16. Abishai. ] Elder brother to Joab, who yet got the start of him.

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Genealogies. B. C. 1751.       1 These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] The sons of Israel. Names more numerous than Genesis, without regard to order. Greater interest by filling up former accounts. 1 Chronicles 2:3-12 .— Posterity of Judah . 1 Chro...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The interest of this chapter owes something to the several unsatisfied questions which it suggests, to difficult and knotty points which nevertheless do not altogether counsel despair...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  From Israel to Jesse

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• 1 Chronicles 2:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 26:6 ; 2 Samuel 16:9-11 ; 2 Samuel 19:22 ; 2 Samuel 2:18-23 ; 2 Samuel 3:39

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