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Brenton's Septuagint

1 Chronicles 2:16

And their sister was Saruia, and another Abigaia: and the sons of Saruia were Abisa, and Joab, and Asael, three.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abigail;   Abishai;   Asahel;   Jesse;   Joab;   Zeruiah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Joab;   Zeruiah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abigail;   Abishai;   Nahash;   Zeruiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Joab;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Abishai;   Nahash;   Zeruiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abigail;   Amasa;   Chronicles, the Books of;   David;   Jarha;   Nahash;   Tehinnah;   Zeruiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abigail;   Abishai;   Amasa;   Joab;   Nahash;   Zeruiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abigail,;   Abishai;   Chronicles, I;   Genealogy;   Genealogy of Jesus Christ;   Joab;   Judah;   Nahash;   Perez;   Shammah;   Zeruiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Abigail ;   Hezron ;   Jerahmeel ;   Nahash ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abishai;   David;   Joab;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Abisha'i,;   Ab'ner;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abigail;   Asahel;   Nahash;   Zeruiah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abigail;   Abishai;   Asahel;   Judah;   Nahash;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah’s three sons: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.
Hebrew Names Version
and their sisters were Tzeru'yah and Avigayil. The sons of Tzeru'yah: Avishai, and Yo'av, and `Asa'el, three.
King James Version
Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
English Standard Version
And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
New Century Version
Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah's three sons were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.
New English Translation
Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah's three sons were Abshai, Joab, and Asahel.
Amplified Bible
Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
New American Standard Bible
Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah were Abshai, Joab, and Asahel.
World English Bible
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sonnes of Zeruiah, Abishai, & Ioab, and Asahel.
Legacy Standard Bible
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah were Abshai, Joab, and Asahel.
Berean Standard Bible
Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.
Contemporary English Version
Jesse also had two daughters: Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah was the mother of Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.
Complete Jewish Bible
and their sisters Tz'ruyah and Avigayil. The sons of Tz'ruyah: Avshai, Yo'av and ‘Asah'el, three of them.
Darby Translation
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
Easy-to-Read Version
Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah's three sons were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.
George Lamsa Translation
Whose sisters were Zuriah and Abigail. And the sons of Zuriah: Abishai, Joab, and Ashail, three.
Good News Translation
He also had two daughters, Zeruiah and Abigail. Jesse's daughter Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.
Lexham English Bible
And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
Literal Translation
Their sisters: Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, and Joab and Asahel, three.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And their sisters were Zeruia & Abigail. The childre of Zeruia are these thre: Abisai, Ioab & Asahel.
American Standard Version
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
Bible in Basic English
And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whose sisters were Zeruia and Abigail. The sonnes of Zeruia: Abisai, Ioab, and Azael, three.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
King James Version (1611)
Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sonnes of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Ioab, and Asahel, three.
English Revised Version
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the seuenthe, Dauyd; whose sistris weren Saruya, and Abigail. The sones of Saruye weren thre, Abisai, Joab, and Asahel.
Update Bible Version
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
Webster's Bible Translation
Whose sisters [were] Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
New King James Version
Now their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel--three.
New Living Translation
Their sisters were named Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah had three sons named Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.
New Life Bible
Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah's three sons were Abshai, Joab and Asahel.
New Revised Standard
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, their sisters, were Zeruiah and Abigail, - and, the sons of Zeruiah, Abishai and Joab and Asahel, three,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And their sisters were Sarvia, and Abigail. The sons of Sarvia: Abisai, Joab, and Asael, three.
Revised Standard Version
and their sisters were Zeru'iah and Ab'igail. The sons of Zeru'iah: Abi'shai, Jo'ab, and As'ahel, three.
Young's Literal Translation
and their sisters Zeruiah and Abigail. And sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asah-El -- three.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah were Abshai, Joab and Asahel.

Contextual Overview

1 These are the names of the sons of Israel; 2 Ruben, Symeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Zabulon, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Nephthali, Gad, Aser. 3 The sons of Juda; Er, Aunan, Selom. These three were born to him of the daughter of Sava the Chananitish woman: and Er, the first-born of Juda, was wicked before the Lord, and he slew him. 4 And Thamar his daughter-in-law bore to him Phares, and Zara: all the sons of Juda were five. 5 The sons of Phares, Esrom, and Jemuel. 6 And the sons of Zara, Zambri, and Ætham, and Æmuan, and Calchal, and Darad, in all five. 7 And the sons of Charmi; Achar the troubler of Israel, who was disobedient in the accursed thing. 8 And the sons of Ætham; Azarias, 9 and the sons of Esrom who were born to him; Jerameel, and Aram, and Chaleb. 10 And Aram begot Aminadab, and Aminadab begot Naasson, chief of the house of Juda.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the sons of: 1 Samuel 26:6, 2 Samuel 2:18-23, 2 Samuel 3:39, 2 Samuel 16:9-11, 2 Samuel 19:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:11 - Levi 2 Samuel 2:13 - Joab 2 Samuel 14:1 - Joab 2 Samuel 17:25 - Ithra 2 Samuel 19:13 - Amasa 2 Samuel 23:18 - Abishai 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Abishai 1 Chronicles 18:12 - Moreover

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them.
Genesis 2:2
And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made.
Genesis 2:9
And God made to spring up also out of the earth every tree beautiful to the eye and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of learning the knowledge of good and evil.
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Does the Lord take pleasure in whole-burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in hearing the words of the Lord? behold, obedience is better than a good sacrifice, and hearkening than the fat of rams.

Gill's Notes on the 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 name is nowhere mentioned.

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 fact that Abishai joined David as a comrade in arms before Joab 1 Samuel 26:6, it would seem that, although Joab was pre-eminent among the three 2 Samuel 2:13, 2 Samuel 2:16, Abishai was the eldest.


 
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