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1st Samuel Chapter 8 verse 2 Holy Bible

ASV 1stSamuel 8:2

Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
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BBE 1stSamuel 8:2

The name of his first son was Joel and the name of his second Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
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DARBY 1stSamuel 8:2

And the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah; they judged in Beer-sheba.
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KJV 1stSamuel 8:2

Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.
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WBT 1stSamuel 8:2

Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
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WEB 1stSamuel 8:2

Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba.
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YLT 1stSamuel 8:2

And the name of his first-born son is Joel, and the name of his second Abiah, judges in Beer-Sheba:
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - The name of his firstborn was Joel. The names of Samuel's sons are pledges of his faith - Joel meaning Jehovah is God, and Abiah Jab is Father. The name given in 1 Chronicles 6:28, Vashni, is a mistake. It means, "and the second," the name of Joel the firstborn having somehow been omitted. The names of Saul's sons, and even of Jonathan's, unlike those in Samuel's family, bear witness to their religion having been of a curiously mixed character. In Beer-sheba. Not, therefore, in any of the places to which Samuel went in person, and which were all near Ramah, his home. Beer-sheba was in the extreme south of the tribe of Judah (see on Genesis 21:31), on the Philistine border, and his being able to place his sons there in authority proves, not merely that his rule was acknowledged throughout the whole country, but also that the Philistines did not interfere much with the internal arrangements of the Israelites. Josephus ('Antiq.,' 6:3, 2) represents only one son as placed at Beer-sheba, and says that the other was judge at Dan, but it may be doubted whether the northern tribes were sufficiently under control to submit to be governed by a southern judge.

Ellicott's Commentary