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1 Chronicles 26:7

Shemaiah’s sons: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad; his relatives Elihu and Semachiah were also capable men.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Elihu;   Elzabad;   Obed;   Obed-Edom;   Othni;   Rephael;   Semachiah;   Shemaiah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Elihu;   Obed;   Obed-Edom;   Othni;   Rephael;   Shemaiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Elihu;   Elzabad;   Obed;   Othni;   Rephael;   Semachiah;   Shemaiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Elihu;   Elzabad;   Obed;   Obed-Edom;   Othni;   Rephael;   Semachiah;   Shallum;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammiel;   Chronicles, I;   Elihu;   Elzabad;   Kohath, Kohathites;   Nethinim;   Obed;   Othni;   Priests and Levites;   Rephael;   Semachiah;   Shemaiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elihu ;   Elzabad ;   Obed ;   Othni ;   Rephael ;   Semachiah ;   Shemaiah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Othni;   Rephael;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Levites;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'hu;   El'zabad;   Music;   O'bed;   Oth'ni;   Re'phael;   Semachi'ah;   Shemai'ah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elihu (1);   Elzabad;   Obed;   Obed-Edom;   Othni;   Rephael;   Semachiah;   Shemaiah;   Valiant;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Elihu;   Obed-Edom;   Raphael;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Shemayah: Othni, and Rephael, and `Oved, Elzavad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachyahu.
King James Version
The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
English Standard Version
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed and Elzabad, whose brothers were able men, Elihu and Semachiah.
New Century Version
Shemaiah's sons were Othni, Rephael, Obed, Elzabad, Elihu, and Semakiah. Elihu, and Semakiah were skilled workers.
New English Translation
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad. His relatives Elihu and Semakiah were also respected.
Amplified Bible
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were courageous and able men, Elihu and Semachiah.
New American Standard Bible
The sons of Shemaiah were Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers, Elihu and Semachiah, were valiant men.
World English Bible
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sonnes of Shemaiah were Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad and his brethren, strong men: Elihu also, and Semachiah.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Shemaiah were Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers, Elihu and Semachiah, were men of valor.
Berean Standard Bible
Shemaiah's sons were Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad; his brothers were Elihu and Semachiah, also capable men.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Sh'ma‘yah: ‘Otni, Refa'el and his brothers ‘Oved and Elzavad, valiant men; also Elihu and S'makhyahu.
Darby Translation
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, [and] Elzabad, whose brethren were valiant men, Elihu and Semachiah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Shemaiah's sons were Othni, Rephael, Obed, Elzabad, Elihu, and Semakiah. Elzabad's relatives were skilled workers.
George Lamsa Translation
The sons of Shemaiah: Gathael, Cadhael, Obedael, and Zechariah, the mighty man, and Elijah and Semachiah.
Lexham English Bible
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were sons of ability, Elihu and Semakiah.
Literal Translation
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers, mighty sons, were Elihu and Semachiah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Semaia were, Athni, Rephael, Obed and Elsabad, whose brethren were valeaunt men, Elihu and Semachia:
American Standard Version
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
Bible in Basic English
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were great men of war, Elihu and Semachiah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sonnes of Semeia, Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, and his brethren were strong men, Elihu and Samachiahu.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael and Obed and Elzabad his brethren, valiant men; Elihu also, and Semachiah.
King James Version (1611)
The sonnes of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were strong men; Elihu, and Semachiah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The sons of Samai; Othni, and Raphael, and Obed, and Elzabath, and Achiud, mighty men, Heliu, and Sabachia, and Isbacom.
English Revised Version
The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the sones of Semeye weren Othyn, and Raphael, and Obediel, and Zadab; and hise britheren, ful stronge men; also Helyu, and Samathie.
Update Bible Version
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
Webster's Bible Translation
The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren [were] strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
New King James Version
The sons of Shemaiah were Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers Elihu and Semachiah were able men.
New Living Translation
Their names were Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad. Their relatives, Elihu and Semakiah, were also very capable men.
New Life Bible
The sons of Shemaiah were Othni, Rephael, Obed and Elzabad. Their brothers, Elihu and Semachiah, were strong and able men.
New Revised Standard
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were able men, Elihu and Semachiah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the sons of Shemaiah, were Othni and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were sons of valour, - Elihu, and Semachiah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons then of Semeias were Othni, and Raphael, and Obed, Elizabad, and his brethren most valiant men: and Eliu, and Samachias.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Shemai'ah: Othni, Reph'a-el, Obed, and Elza'bad, whose brethren were able men, Eli'hu and Semachi'ah.
Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Shemaiah [are] Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad; his brethren [are] sons of valour, Elihu and Semachiah,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Shemaiah were Othni, Rephael, Obed and Elzabad, whose brothers, Elihu and Semachiah, were valiant men.

Contextual Overview

1The following were the divisions of the gatekeepers: 2Meshelemiah had sons: 3Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, 4Obed-edom also had sons: 5Ammiel the sixth, 6Also, to his son Shemaiah were born sons who ruled their ancestral families because they were strong, capable men. 7Shemaiah’s sons: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad; his relatives Elihu and Semachiah were also capable men. 8All of these were among the sons of Obed-edom with their sons and relatives; they were capable men with strength for the work—sixty-two from Obed-edom. 9Meshelemiah also had sons and relatives who were capable men—eighteen. 10Hosah, from the Merarites, also had sons: Shimri the first (although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him as the first),

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 9:19 - keepers of the entry

Cross-References

Genesis 12:13
Please say you’re my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.”
Genesis 20:2
Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
Genesis 20:5
Didn’t he himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I did this with a clear conscience and clean hands.”
Genesis 24:16
Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin—no man had been intimate with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up.
Genesis 26:12
Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that year he reaped a hundred times what was sown. The Lord blessed him,
Genesis 26:13
and the man became rich and kept getting richer until he was very wealthy.
Proverbs 29:25
The fear of mankind is a snare,but the one who trusts in the Lord is protected.
Matthew 10:28
Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul;
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The sons of Shemaiah,.... The same before mentioned, the firstborn of Obededom:

Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, and Elzabad, whose brethren were strong men; Elihu and Semachiah; which may rather denote their valour and courage, as before, though strength of body was needful, particularly to open and shut the doors of the temple, which, Josephus r says, required the assistance of twenty men.

r Contr. Apion. l. 2. sect. 9.


 
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