Elihu (brother of David)

• 1 Chronicles 27:18 reads, “of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David”; the Korean Revised Version reads 다윗의 형 엘리후, Elihu, David’s elder brother.
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  • 1CH 27:16–22, engwebp

    ¹⁶Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites, Eliezer the son of Zichri was the ruler; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;

    ¹⁷of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;

    ¹⁸of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;

    ¹⁹of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel;

    ²⁰of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;

    ²¹of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;

    ²²of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.

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• 1 Chronicles 2:13–15 reads, “and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third, Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, Ozem the sixth, and David the seventh”.
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  • 1CH 2:13–17, engwebp

    ¹³and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,

    ¹⁴Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

    ¹⁵Ozem the sixth, and David the seventh;

    ¹⁶and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.

    ¹⁷Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

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• 1 Samuel 16:6–10 names Eliab, Abinadab and Shammah among the sons of Jesse and says, “Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel”; 17:12–14 says of Jesse, “he had eight sons”, names “his three sons who went to the battle”, “Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah”, and says, “David was the youngest”.
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  • 1SA 16:6–10, engwebp

    ⁶When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him.”

    ⁷But the LORD said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

    ⁸Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “The LORD has not chosen this one, either.”

    ⁹Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, “The LORD has not chosen this one, either.”

    ¹⁰Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, “The LORD has not chosen these.”

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  • 1SA 17:12–16, engwebp

    ¹²Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.

    ¹³The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

    ¹⁴David was the youngest; and the three oldest followed Saul.

    ¹⁵Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

    ¹⁶The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

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1 Chronicles 27:18 names the ruler of Judah “Elihu, one of the brothers of David” (the Korean Revised Version: 다윗의 형 엘리후, David’s elder brother). The sons of Jesse whom 1 Chronicles 2:13–15 and 1 Samuel 16:6–10 and 17:12–14 name do not include the name Elihu. This collection records the Elihu of 27:18 as a brother of David and keeps him apart, and does not decide whether he is one of the sons of Jesse whom the other passages name.