1 Samuel 16:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Jesse and his sons. He had eight sons and two daughters, Zeruiah (mother of Abishai, Joab, and Asahel) and Abigail (mother of Amasa). David is the eighth here (verses: 10, 11), but called the seventh in 1 Chronicles 2:15. One son must have died shortly after this, or been the son of. concubine, or died without issue and so not reckoned in the genealogy. Samuel is history, Chronicles is genealogy.

1 Samuel 16:5

5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.