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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

1 Chronicles 2:16

And, their sisters, were Zeruiah and Abigail, - and, the sons of Zeruiah, Abishai and Joab and Asahel, 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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And their sister was Saruia, and another Abigaia: and the sons of Saruia were Abisa, and Joab, and Asael, 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.
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 sons of Israel, - Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun; 2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher, 3 the sons of Judah, Er, and Onan, and Shelah, the three born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess, - but Er the firstborn of Judah became wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, and he slew him. 4 And, Tamar his daughter-in-law, bare him, Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah, were five. 5 The sons of Perez, Hezron and Hamul. 6 And, the sons of Zerah, Zimri and Ethan, and Heman and Calcol and Dara, all of them, five. 7 And, the sons of Carmi, Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in a thing devoted. 8 And, the sons of Ethan, Azariah. 9 And, the sons of Hezron, who were born to him, Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Calubai. 10 And, Ram, begat Amminadab, - and, Amminadab, begat Nahshon, leader of the sons of Judah.

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
Thus were finished the heavens and the earth and all their host.
Genesis 2:2
Thus God finished, on the seventh day his work which he had made, and rested, on the seventh day, from all his work which he had made.
Genesis 2:9
And Yahweh God, caused to spring up, out of the ground, every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food, - and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
1 Samuel 15:22
Then said Samuel - Doth that which is pleasing unto Yahweh consist in ascending-offerings and sacrifices, So much as in hearkening unto the voice of Yahweh? Lo! to hearken, is, better, than, sacrifice. And, to give heed, than, the fat of rams;
1 Timothy 4:4
Because, every creature of God, is good, and nothing to be cast away, if, with thanksgiving, it be received, -
1 Timothy 6:17
Upon them who are rich in the present age, lay thou charge - not to be high-minded, nor to have set their hope on, riches', uncertainty, - but on God, who offereth us all things richly for enjoying,

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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