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and his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,
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A Purposeful Repetition
Commentators explain that this list of names is a deliberate repetition from 1 Chronicles 8. The author of Chronicles uses this repetition as a literary bridge to transition from the book's extensive genealogies to the historical account of King Saul's downfall, which begins in the next chapter.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This is an almost exact repetition of 1 Chronicles 8:29–38, likely included intentionally by the author. To connect the genealogical se…
19th Century
Anglican
Zur. —“Rock,” a Divine title. (Compare Pedahzur, “the Rock has ransomed; ” Zurishaddai, “the Rock is the Lofty One; ” if we may co…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 9:35).
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This chapter expresses that one end of recording all these genealogies was to direct the Jews, when they returned from captivity, with whom to unit…
