Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 2:16
Whose sisters [were] Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
16. sons of Zeruiah ] Joab and his brothers are always thus named after their mother; probably their father died while they were young, or we may have a relic here of the ancient method of tracing kinship through the mother.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Sisters – i. e. half-sisters. Abigail and Zeruiah were daughters not of Jesse, but of a certain Nahash, whose widow Jesse took to wife 2Sa 17:25.
From the present passage, and from the fact that Abishai joined David as a comrade in arms before Joab 1Sa 26:6, it would seem that, although Joab was pre-eminent among the three 2Sa 2:13, 2Sa 2:16, Abishai was the eldest.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail….. That is, sisters of David:
and the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three; all valiant men and captains in David’s army; their father’s name is nowhere mentioned.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1Ch 2:16 Whose sisters [were] Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
Ver. 16. Abishai. ] Elder brother to Joab, who yet got the start of him.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Zeruiah. Sister of David. Nahash (2Sa 17:25) may have been the father of Jesse’s wife. Otherwise, she and Abigail were half-sisters.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the sons of: 1Sa 26:6, 2Sa 2:18-23, 2Sa 3:39, 2Sa 16:9-11, 2Sa 19:22
Reciprocal: Gen 46:11 – Levi 2Sa 2:13 – Joab 2Sa 14:1 – Joab 2Sa 17:25 – Ithra 2Sa 19:13 – Amasa 2Sa 23:18 – Abishai 1Ch 11:20 – Abishai 1Ch 18:12 – Moreover