1 Chronicles 6:28
The sons of Samuel: Joel his firstborn and Abijah his second son.
Note See Syriac and some LXX manuscripts (also verse 33 and 1 Samuel 8:2); Hebrew The sons of Samuel: the firstborn Vashni, then Abiah.
And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.
Note Vashni: called also Joel
The sons of Samuel: the firstborn, Joel, and the second, Abijah.
And the sons of Samuel: the first-born, Joel, and the second Abijah.
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- Vashni.
- It appears that the Joel is here lost out of the text; and that {washni,} which signifies "and the second," and which refers to Abiah, is made into a proper name. The Syriac and Arabic read as in Samuel. The marginal references contain the variation in the names given to the same persons, in different parts of sacred history, as far as it can be ascertained; and nearly the whole, that is at present known concerning them, may be learned by consulting them.
- 1 Chronicles 6:33; 1 Samuel 8:2