Nahash (father of Abigail)

• 2 Samuel 10:1 says, “After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place,” and at 10:2 David says, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.”
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  • 2SA 10:1–5, engwebp

    ¹After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.

    ²David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

    ³But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”

    ⁴So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

    ⁵When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”

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• 2 Samuel 17:25 says that Amasa was the son of “Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.” The verse does not say where this Nahash was from.
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  • 2SA 17:24–26, engwebp

    ²⁴Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

    ²⁵Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

    ²⁶Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

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• 2 Samuel 17:27, telling of the time when David had come to Mahanaim, names “Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon”.
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  • 2SA 17:27–29, engwebp

    ²⁷When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

    ²⁸brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,

    ²⁹honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

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2 Samuel 10:1–2 says that the king of the children of Ammon died and Hanun his son reigned in his place, and has David call him “Hanun the son of Nahash”; 17:25 names “Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother”; and 17:27 names “Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon”. The text does not say whether the Nahash of any two of these passages is the same man. This collection records the three apart and does not decide whether any of them are the same man.

• 1 Chronicles 2:13–15 names the sons Jesse became the father of, from his firstborn Eliab to David the seventh, and 2:16–17 go on, “and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. Abigail bore Amasa”.
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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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• 2 Samuel 17:25 says, “Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.” The Korean Revised Version calls her Zeruiah’s 동생, her younger sister.
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  • 2SA 17:24–26, engwebp

    ²⁴Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

    ²⁵Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

    ²⁶Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

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1 Chronicles 2:13–16 names the sons Jesse became the father of and calls Zeruiah and Abigail “their sisters”; neither edition says whose daughters they are. 2 Samuel 17:25 names “Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother” (the Korean Revised Version calls her Zeruiah’s 동생, younger sister). The Korean Revised Version writes her name 아비가일 in 1 Chronicles and 아비갈 in 2 Samuel, and WEB Abigail in both. The text does not say how “their sisters” of 1 Chronicles 2:16 and “the daughter of Nahash” of 2 Samuel 17:25 fit. This collection records the Abigail of 1 Chronicles 2:16–17 on the entry of Abigail of 2 Samuel 17:25 (person-abigail-nahash), Zeruiah’s sister and Amasa’s mother; it records Zeruiah and Abigail as David’s sisters from 1 Chronicles 2:16 and Nahash as Abigail’s father from 2 Samuel 17:25, records no relationship between Jesse and the two, and does not decide how the two accounts fit.