Revised Version 1895
1 Chronicles 8:8
8And Shaharaim begat children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.
1 Chronicles 8:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.
- New International Version (NIV)Sons were born to Shaharaim in Moab after he had divorced his wives Hushim and Baara.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And Shaharaim fathered sons in the country of Moab after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Also Shaharaim had children in the country of Moab, after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.
Context of 1 Chronicles 8:8
6And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Manahath: 7and Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera, he carried them captive; and he begat Uzza and Ahihud: And Shaharaim begat children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives. 9And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam; 10and Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ houses.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 81 Chronicles 8:8 word by word
וְשַׁחֲרַ֗יִם הוֹלִיד֙ בִּשְׂדֵ֣ה מוֹאָ֔ב מִן־שִׁלְח֖וֹ אֹתָ֑ם חוּשִׁ֥ים וְאֶֽת־בַּעֲרָ֖א נָשָֽׁיו׃Read the interlinear
- Shaharaimשַׁחֲרַ֫יִםshachărayim · ShaharaimH7842
- childrenיָלַדyâlad · to begetH3205
- fieldשָׂדֶהώâdeh ώâday · land: countryH7704
- Moabמוֹאָבmô'âb · MoabH4124
- afterמִן־min minnîy minnêy · fromH4480
- sentשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: departH7971
- awayשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: departH7971
- Hushimחוּשִׁיםchûshîym chûshîym chûshim · HushimH2366
- Baaraבַּעֲרָאbâ‛ărâ' · BaaraH1199
- wivesאִשָּׁה'ishshâh nâshîym · woman: wifeH802
Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 8:8
- Ruth 1:1And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
- Genesis 25:6But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 8:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8After he had sent them away - Translate it: “after he had divorced his wives, Hushim and Baara.”Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-28This list shows the militia from the clans of Ehud (1 Chronicles 8:6–7) and Shaharaim (8:8–28). They lived near Jerusalem.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab--He had probably been driven to take refuge in that foreign land on the same calamitous occasion that forced Elimelech to emigrate thither (Ru 1:1). But, destitute of natural affection, he forsook or divorced his two wives, and in the land of his sojourn married a third, by whom he had several sons. But there is another explanation given of the conduct of this Benjamite polygamist. His children by Hushim…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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