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1 Chronicles 14:4
These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Chronicler records David’s expanding household in Jerusalem immediately after noting his acquisition of additional wives in the city. The passage functions as a genealogical inventory documenting the royal family’s growth during his reign.
The words — וְ/אֵ֙לֶּה (ve./'E.leh) translates literally as "and these," serving as a formal introductory marker for the list. הַ/יְלוּדִ֔ים (ha/y.lu.Dim) means "the ones born," specifying that the following names refer exclusively to David’s offspring born in Jerusalem.
The thread — This exact genealogical formula and list of four sons appear in 2 Samuel 5:14 and 1 Chronicles 3:5. The parallel accounts cross-reference the same royal lineage across the historical and prophetic books.
Why it lands — The text states a factual enumeration of David’s Jerusalem-born sons without theological commentary. Readers must treat the names as historical markers of political continuity rather than symbolic or doctrinal claims.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Now these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
Cross-references
- 1 Chronicles 3:5 and these sons were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon. These four were born to him by Bathsheba daughter of Ammiel.
- 2 Samuel 5:14 These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
- 2 Samuel 12:1 Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
- 2 Samuel 12:24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
- 1 Kings 1:13 Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’
- 1 Kings 1:17 “My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ‘Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.’
- 1 Kings 2:15 “You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.
- 1 Kings 3:3 And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
- 1 Kings 3:5 One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
- 1 Chronicles 22:9 But a son will be born to you who will be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name will be Solomon, and I will grant to Israel peace and quiet during his reign.