Tree of Life Version
1 Chronicles 2:6
6The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol and Dara, five in all.
1 Chronicles 2:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
- New International Version (NIV)The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Kalkol and Darda—five in all.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The sons of Zerah were Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara—five of them in all.
Context of 1 Chronicles 2:6
4Then Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all. 5The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol and Dara, five in all. 7The sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel who violated the ban of devoted things. 8The sons of Ethan: Azariah.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 21 Chronicles 2:6 word by word
וּבְנֵ֣י זֶ֗רַח זִ֠מְרִי וְאֵיתָ֧ן וְהֵימָ֛ן וְכַלְכֹּ֥ל וָדָ֖רַע כֻּלָּ֥ם חֲמִשָּֽׁה׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 2:6
- Numbers 25:14The name of the Israelite man killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, a prince of a Simeonite ancestral household.
- 1 Kings 16:9Then his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariotry, conspired against him while he was in Tirzah, making himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was in charge of the palace in Tirzah.
- 2 Kings 9:31As Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is it peace, Zimri, your master’s assassin?”
- 1 Chronicles 8:36Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah, Jehoaddah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth and Zimri, and Zimri fathered Moza,
- 1 Chronicles 9:42Ahaz fathered Jarah and Jarah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth and Zimri. Zimri fathered Moza
- Jeremiah 25:25all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam and all the kings of Media;
- 1 Kings 16:10Then Zimri went in, struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of King Asa of Judah, and became king in his place.
- 1 Chronicles 2:4Then Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
- Joshua 7:1But Bnei-Yisrael unfaithfully violated the ban. Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the banned things. So Adonai’s anger burned against Bnei-Yisrael.
- Joshua 7:17Then he brought forward the clans of Judah, and He took the family of the Zerahites. Then he brought forward the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken.
- Joshua 7:18Then he brought forward his household man by man, and Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah of the tribe of Judah was taken.
- 1 Chronicles 2:8The sons of Ethan: Azariah.
- 1 Chronicles 6:42To sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, also Libnah with its open land, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its open land,
- 1 Chronicles 15:17So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; from their brothers the descendants of Merari, Ethan son of Kushaiah;
- Psalms 89:1A contemplative song of Ethan the Ezrahite.
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 2:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Five of them in all - "These were all chief men; and on them the spirit of prophecy rested." - T.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6The sons of Zerah - Here, for the first time, the writer of Chronicles draws from sources not otherwise known to us, recording facts not mentioned in the earlier Scriptures. Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, sons of Zerah, are only known to us from this passage, since there are no sufficient grounds for identifying them with the “sons of Mahol” (marginal reference).Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-8For the family history of Zerah, compare Joshua 7:1, 17; 1 Kings 4:31 (Mahol might be another name for Zerah).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara--These five are here stated to be the sons of Zerah, that is, of Ezra, whence they were called Ezrahites (1Ki 4:31). In that passage they are called "the sons of Mahol," which, however, is to be taken not as a proper name, but appellatively for "sons of music, dancing," &c. The traditional fame of their great sagacity and acquirements had descended to the time of Solomon and formed a standard of…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 2
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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