1 Chronicles 3:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Elishama and Eliphelet These two names are mentioned before, 1 Chronicles 3:6. It is supposed that the two children so called had died in their infancy; and therefore David preserved their memory by giving their names unto two others, who were born afterward, and lived longer. Nine Besides the four born of Bath-sheba, 1 Chronicles 3:5. There are only seven mentioned 2 Samuel 5:16, those two, who died early, being there omitted.

1 Chronicles 3:8

8 And Elishama, and Eliada,d and Eliphelet, nine.