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1 Chronicles 8:33
Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.
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Study note
Setting — The Chronicler records a Benjaminite genealogy, tracing the lineage of Saul’s family within the broader tribal register.
The words — The text uses הוֹלִיד (ho.Lid), meaning "he fathered," to establish a direct paternal succession from Ner to Kish and from Kish to Saul.
The thread — This lineage intersects with 1 Samuel 9:1, which expands Kish’s ancestry back to Abiel, and 1 Samuel 31:2, which documents the battlefield deaths of Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to recognize the documented succession of Saul’s royal line, linking the tribal record to the subsequent historical narrative of Israel’s monarchy.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi–shua, and Abinadab, and Esh–baal.
Cross-references
- 1 Samuel 9:1 Now there was a Benjamite, a powerful man, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin.
- 1 Samuel 31:2 The Philistines hotly pursued Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.
- 2 Samuel 2:8 Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,
- 1 Samuel 14:49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).
- Acts 13:21 Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.
- 2 Samuel 4:12 So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
- 1 Chronicles 9:39 Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.