1 Chronicles 11:47

Old Testament Historical ASV (1901)

What does 1 Chronicles 11:47 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
1 Chronicles 11:47 — American Standard Version

Context — 1 Chronicles 11

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
47Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

What do historical commentaries say?

Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · Commentary on the Old Testament · 19th-century historical commentary
“המּצביה, which, so far as the form is concerned, is not a nomen gentil., Reland (Palaest. ill. p. 899) holds for a contraction of צבעויא מגדל, Migdal Zebujah-a place which, according to the rabbins, is said to have been somewhere in the neighbourhood of Hebron. Bertheau's opinion is, that the article has come into the text by mistake; and when it has been struck out, the remaining consonants, מצביה, recall the מצּבה of Sa2 23:36 (?). Next: 1 Chronicles Chapter 12”
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