1-Chronicles - 23:16



16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Chronicles 23:16.

Differing Translations

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The sons of Gersom: Subuel the first.
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the head.
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the first.
The sons of Gershom: Shubael the chief.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

To this verse the Targum adds, "The same Jonathan, who became a false prophet, repented in his old age; and David made him his chief treasurer."

Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief. Of the posterity of Gershom in the times of David, called Shubael, 1-Chronicles 24:20, the Targum makes him to be the same with Jonathan, Judges 18:30. (l).
(l) So in Hieron. Trad. Hebrews. in Paralipom. fol. 84. c.

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