Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 6:26
[As for] Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
26. Zophai his son, etc.] We have here one of the three genealogies of Samuel the prophet. Each list seems to have suffered in transcription; the three are given here for comparison.
1Ch 6:26-28
1Ch 6:33-35
1Sa 1:1; 1Sa 8:2.
Zophai
Zuph
Zuph
Nahath
Toah
Tohu
Eliab
Eliel
Elihu
Jeroham
Jeroham
Jeroham
Elkanah
Elkanah
Elkanah
Samuel
Samuel
Samuel
[ ] and Abiah
Joel
Joel and Abijah
28. The firstborn Vashni, and Abiah ] Render (from an emendation of the Heb. text) the firstborn Joel and the second Abijah (as 1Sa 8:2).
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Elkanah; this was another Elkanah, son or grandson of the former Elkanah and either the son or brother of Ahimoth last mentioned, or of Amasai.
Nahath, called also Toah, 1Ch 6:31, and Tohu, 1Sa 1:1.
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[See comments on 1Ch 6:22].
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(26) The Hebrew text reads: Elkanah his sonElkanahZophai his son, &c. Zophai might mean the Zophite. The LXX. has (1Ch. 6:25) And sons of Elkanah, Amessi and Ahimoth; (1Ch. 6:26) Elkanah his son, Souphi his son, &c. So the Syriac. That this is correct appears from comparison of Hemans pedigree (1Ch. 6:35). The second Elkanah in 1Ch. 6:26 is therefore an intrusion, due perhaps to some scribe who remembered 1Sa. 1:1, where Zophim occurs just before Elkanah. In 1Ch. 6:35 Elkanah is son of Mahath, son of Amasai. Perhaps Mahath is identical with the Ahimoth of 1Ch. 6:25; if so, the true reading of 1Ch. 6:25-26 would be: And sons of Elkanah: Amasai his son, Ahimoth (Mahath) his son, Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, &c. Zophai is to Zuph (1Ch. 6:35) as Chelubai (1Ch. 2:9) to Chelub (1Ch. 4:11). Nahath looks like a transformation of Toah (1Ch. 6:34), and Eliab (1Ch. 6:27)El is fathermay be a by-form of Eliel (ibid.) El is el. Jeroham and Elkanah go back to Eliel in 1Ch. 6:34, just as they spring from Eliab here. The two series again coincide.
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the sons of Elkanah. Some codices, with Septuagint and one early printed edition, omit this second “Elkanah”; the Hebrew reads “his son”.
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Zophai: 1Ch 6:35, 1Sa 1:1, Zuph
Nahath: 1Ch 6:34, Toah, 1Sa 1:1, Tohu
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1Ch 6:26. As for Elkanah, &c. This was another Elkanah, son or grandson of the former Elkanah, and either the son or brother of Ahimoth, last mentioned, or of Amasai. Nahath his son Called also Toah, 1Ch 6:34, and Tohu, 1Sa 1:1. The Elkanah mentioned in the next verse was the father of the Prophet Samuel, whose name therefore follows.