1 Chronicles 2:15

David the seventh - Jesse had eight sons, of whom David was the youngest 1Sa 16:10-11; 1Sa 17:12. Probably one of the sons shown to Samuel at Bethlehem did not grow up.

Here is, I. The family of Jacob. His twelve sons are here named, that illustrious number so often celebrated almost throughout the whole Bible, from the first to the last book of it. At every turn we…

David the seventh Jesse had eight sons (1Sa 17:12; cp. 1Sa 16:10-11). Here one seems deliberately passed over, perhaps because he had no children. (The Elihu "one of David's brethren" of 1Ch 27:18 is…