2 Samuel 5:16

16 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.^[a]

2 Samuel 5:16 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 5:16

And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
] Seven more by some other wife or wives; nine are mentioned in ( 1 Chronicles 3:6-8 ) ; there being in that account two Eliphalets, and another called Nogah; which two, one of the Eliphalets, and Nogah, might die without sons, as Kimchi thinks, and so are not mentioned here.

2 Samuel 5:16 In-Context

14 These are the names of those born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,

16 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.

17 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they all went in search of David, but he heard about it and went down to the stronghold.

18 So the Philistines came and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

Footnotes

• [a]. 1 Ch 3:5-8; 14:1-5