Hushai (father of Baana)

• 2 Samuel 15:32 says that when David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, “Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn and earth on his head”, and 15:37 says, “So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city”.
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  • 2SA 15:32–37, engwebp

    ³²When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn and earth on his head.

    ³³David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;

    ³⁴but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’

    ³⁵Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

    ³⁶Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.”

    ³⁷So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

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• 1 Kings 4:16 names “Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth”. The verse gives this Hushai no gentilic or title.
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  • 1KI 4:7–19, engwebp

    ⁷Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

    ⁸These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

    ⁹Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

    ¹⁰Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

    ¹¹Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife);

    ¹²Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

    ¹³Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);

    ¹⁴Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

    ¹⁵Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

    ¹⁶Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

    ¹⁷Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

    ¹⁸Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

    ¹⁹Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.

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2 Samuel 15:32 and 15:37 name Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, and 1 Kings 4:16 names Hushai as the father of Baana, with no gentilic or title. The text does not say whether the two are the same man. This collection records the Hushai of 4:16 apart, and does not decide whether they are the same man.