And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
The twelve sons of Jacob descended through all Scripture, yet several of them were much blemished in character. But the covenant was entailed on their seed by free grace alone, not works, else any man might boast. The tribe of Judah, most praised and increased, produced both the vile and the virtuous in one line; Christ Himself, the top branch of that tree, grew from roots that held Achan the troubler and Tamar the woman wronged.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 2:1-17
The names Hur, Uri, and Bezaleel appear twice in the genealogies with the same patronymic line, yet they are not the same men; the fathers and grandfathers bore identical names and came from the same tribe, which accounts for the resemblance without requiring them to be one person.
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Zeruiah's sons became the great warriors of David's reign, Abishai, Joab, Asahel, and her name endures in Scripture because her sons were more famous than their absent father. Abigail, David's half-sister through Nahash, bore Amasa, the captain whose name is bound up with Absalom's rebellion.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 2:16-17