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撒母耳记上 14:3

其中有亞希突的兒子亞希亞帶著以弗得;亞希突是以迦博的哥哥,非尼哈的兒子,以利的孫子。以利從前在示羅作耶和華的祭司。約拿單去了,眾人都不知道。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahiah;   Ahijah;   Ahitub;   I-Chabod;   Jonathan;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ephod, the;   Philistines, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahiah;   Ichabod;   Philistines;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Eli;   Ephod;   Jonathan;   Palestine;   Philistia, philistines;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Priest, Priesthood;   War, Holy War;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ahimelech;   Ephod;   High Priest;   Philistines;   Thummim;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahijah;   Eli;   Ephod;   High Priest;   Phinehas;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Ahijah;   Ahitub;   Ephod;   Jonathan;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahijah;   Ahimelech;   Ahitub;   Gibeah;   Israel;   Jonathan;   Michmash;   Philistines;   Samuel, Books of;   Shiloh;   Urim and Thummim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abiathar;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahiah ;   Ahitub ;   Ephod;   Garrison;   Geba ;   Ichabod ;   Jonathan ;   Phinehas ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ahiah;   Ahimelech;   Ahitub;   Eli;   Jonathan;   Phinehas;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ahi'ah;   Ahi'tub;   Phin'ehas;   U'rim and Thum'mim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahiah;   Ahijah;   Ahimelech;   Ahitub;   Chronology of the Old Testament;   Samuel, Books of;   Tabernacle;   Urim and Thummim;   Zadok;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ahiah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abiathar;   Ahijah (the Prophet);   Ahijah, Ahiah, Ahijahu;   Ahimelech;   Eli;   Ephod;   Ichabod;   Priest;   Sacrifice;   Urim and Thummim;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
在 那 里 有 亚 希 突 的 儿 子 亚 希 亚 , 穿 着 以 弗 得 。 ( 亚 希 突 是 以 迦 博 的 哥 哥 , 非 尼 哈 的 儿 子 , 以 利 的 孙 子 。 以 利 从 前 在 示 罗 作 耶 和 华 的 祭 司 。 ) 约 拿 单 去 了 , 百 姓 却 不 知 道 。

Contextual Overview

1 One day Jonathan, Saul's son, said to the officer who carried his armor, "Come, let's go over to the Philistine camp on the other side." But Jonathan did not tell his father. 2 Saul was sitting under a pomegranate tree at the threshing floor near Gibeah. He had about six hundred men with him. 3 One man was Ahijah who was wearing the holy vest. (Ahijah was a son of Ichabod's brother Ahitub. Ichabod was the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord 's priest in Shiloh.) No one knew Jonathan had left. 4 There was a steep slope on each side of the pass that Jonathan planned to go through to reach the Philistine camp. The cliff on one side was named Bozez, and the cliff on the other side was named Seneh. 5 One cliff faced north toward Micmash. The other faced south toward Geba. 6 Jonathan said to his officer who carried his armor, "Come. Let's go to the camp of those men who are not circumcised. Maybe the Lord will help us. The Lord can give us victory if we have many people, or just a few." 7 The officer who carried Jonathan's armor said to him, "Do whatever you think is best. Go ahead. I'm with you." 8 Jonathan said, "Then come. We will cross over to the Philistines and let them see us. 9 If they say to us, ‘Stay there until we come to you,' we will stay where we are. We won't go up to them. 10 But if they say, ‘Come up to us,' we will climb up, and the Lord will let us defeat them. This will be the sign for us."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ahiah: 1 Samuel 22:9-12, 1 Samuel 22:20, called Ahimelech.

Ichabod's: 1 Samuel 4:21

wearing: 1 Samuel 2:28, Exodus 28:26-32

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:31 - I will cut 1 Samuel 21:1 - to Ahimelech 1 Samuel 23:6 - an ephod 1 Chronicles 6:7 - Ahitub Hosea 3:4 - ephod

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
The Lord sent a rain of burning sulfur down from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah
Numbers 34:12
Then the border will go down along the Jordan River and end at the Dead Sea. "‘These are the borders around your country.'"
Deuteronomy 3:17
The border on the west was the Jordan River in the Jordan Valley, and it goes from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea west of Mount Pisgah.
Joshua 3:16
the water upstream stopped flowing. It stood up in a heap a great distance away at Adam, a town near Zarethan. The water flowing down to the Sea of Arabah (the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed the river near Jericho.
Psalms 107:34
He made fertile land salty, because the people there did evil.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Ahiah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother,.... Ichabod was the child that Phinehas's wife bore prematurely on hearing the news of the ark being taken and of the death of her husband and father-in-law, which name she gave him on that account, and died; see 1 Samuel 4:19, he, it seems, had an elder brother, called Ahitub, who died young, and this Ahiah was the son of him; for not he, but Ahitub, was Ichabod's brother:

the son of Phinehas; so Ichabod was:

the son of Eli; so Phinehas was:

the Lord's priest in Shiloh; this refers not to Ahiah for he was not now priest in Shiloh, which was destroyed: and besides, he was now in the camp of Saul; but to Eli, who when living exercised the priest's office in Shiloh:

wearing an ephod; as Ahiah now did; not such as common priests wore, but the ephod the high priest wore, which had the breastplate of judgment, the Urim and Thummim, in it, by which inquiry was made, 1 Samuel 14:37. The meaning of all this is, that the high priest is now with Saul, and the ark also, which and the high priest might be sent for on this occasion, 1 Samuel 14:18

and the people knew not that Jonathan was gone; or they would have gone with him, namely, the military men that were particularly with him; he and Saul were in two different parts of Gibeah, with distinct bodies of men; whether the thousand that Jonathan first had with him all continued is not certain; it seems probable they did not; it can hardly be thought he should have more with him than were with Saul; see

1 Samuel 14:2, though from 1 Samuel 14:17 they seem now to have been together.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whether “Ahiah” or “Ahijah” is the same person as “Ahimelech the son of Ahitub” (see the marginal reference), or whether Ahimelech was the brother or son of Ahijah, and his successor in the priesthood, it is impossible to say certainly. Most probably “Ahijah” and “Ahimilech” are variations of the same name; the latter element in each alone being different, מלך melek (king) being substituted for the divine name יה yâhh. Compare “Eliakim” and “Jehoiakim” 2 Kings 23:34, “Eliab” and “Eliel” 1Ch 6:27, 1 Chronicles 6:34.

This fragment of a genealogy is a very valuable help to the chronology. The grandson of Phinehas, the son of Eli, was now High Priest; and Samuel, who was probably a few years older than Ahitub the son of Phinehas, was now an old man. All this indicates a period of about 50 years or upward from the taking of the ark by the Philistines.

The Lord’s priest in Shiloh - But as Eli was so emphatically known and described in 1 Sam. 1–4, as God’s Priest at Shiloh, and as there is every reason to believe that Shiloh was no longer the seat of the ark in Saul’s time (see 1 Samuel 22:0; 1 Chronicles 13:3-5), it is better to refer these words to Eli, and not to Ahijah, to whom the next words, “wearing an ephod,” apply. (See 1 Samuel 2:28; Judges 1:1 note.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 14:3. Ahiah, the son of Ahitub — Phinehas, son of Eli the high priests had two sons, Ahitub and I-chabod; the latter was born when the ark was taken, and his mother died immediately after. Ahiah is also called Ahimelech, 1 Samuel 22:9.

Wearing an ephod. — That is, performing the functions of the high priest. This man does not appear to have been with Saul when he offered the sacrifices, 1 Samuel 13:9, &c.


 
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