Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
This verse combined with I Chronicles 9:35-39, seems to show that the genealogy of Saul was:
- Abiel (= Jehiel?)
- Ner
- Kish Abner
- Saul
Rather than that to be inferred from I Samuel 9:1; I Samuel 14:50-51.
In I Samuel 14:49 note, it is concluded that Saul' s second son bore the two names of "Ishui" and "Abinadab." But the order of the names here:
(1) Jonathan;
(2) Malchi-shua; and
(3) Abinadab - suggests another explanation, namely, that Ishui, the second son, died young, and that Abinadab was really the fourth son.
Esh-baal - Previous to the introduction of the Phoenician Baal-worship into Israel by Ahab, the word "Baal" ba?al had no bad sense in Hebrew, but was simply an equivalent of the more ordinary 'e?l , "God" (I Chronicles 3:1 note). Hence, there is nothing strange in the use at this time of the names, "Esh-baal" ("man of God" ), "Baal," "Beel-iada," "Merib-baal," etc. Later on such names became offensive to pious ears, and were changed for the better, or for the worse, "Beel-iada" becoming "El-iada" ("let God aid" ) - "Esh-baal," "Ish-bo-sheth" ("man of shame" ) - "Merib-baal," "Mephi-bosheth;" and the like.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Chronicles 8:33:
1 Chronicles 9:35-44
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