ABINADAB
ABINADAB *? bin' *? dab (my [the] father is generous [noble] or father of generosity [nobility]).
1. Abinadab is the second of Jesse's eight sons (1 Sam 16:8; 1 Chron 2:13). When Goliath challenged the Israelites in the Valley of Elah and was killed by David, Abinadab, Eliab, and Shamma were in Saul's army (1 Sam 17:13).
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2. Abinadab, one of the sons of Saul, died with his father and his two brothers on Mt. Gilboa in battle with the Philistines (1 Sam 31:2; 1 Chron 8:33; 9:39; 10:2).
3. The father of Eleazar, Ahio, and Uzzah, whose place on a hill at Kiriath-jearim the Ark remained after it was returned from the Philistines in the days of Samuel. Eleazar was chosen by the city fathers to have charge of the Ark. Uzzah, and Ahio were among those who assisted David in his first attempt to bring the Ark to Jerusalem. Moreover, they set the Ark of God upon a new cart and brought it out of the Abinadab house in Gibeah: Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
Uzzah put his hand on the Ark to steady it when the oxen stumbled and immediately died for his breach of the law of the Ark (2 Sam 6:6, 7).
4. The father of one of Solomon's sons-in-law (1 Kings 4:11). Some scholars suggest that Ben-Abinadab should be translated as a personal name rather than as son (ben) of Abinadab (see RSV). Ben-Abinadab was married to Solomon's daughter Taphath.
Abinadab is mentioned eleven times in the Bible:
1 Kings 4:11
The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
1 Samuel 16:8
Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. Moreover, he said Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
1 Chronicle 2:13
And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,
2 Samuel 6:4
And they brought it out of Abinadab's house, which was at Gibeah, accompanying the Ark of God: Ahio went before the Ark.
1 Chronicle 13:7
Moreover, they carried the Ark of God in a new cart out of Abinadab's house: Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
1 Samuel 7:1
Moreover, the men of Kirjathjearim came, fetched up the Ark of the LORD, brought it into the house of Abinadab on the hill, and sanctified Eleazar, his son, to keep the Ark of the LORD.
1 Samuel 31:2
And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and his sons; the Philistines slew Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.
1 Samuel 17:13
Moreover, the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab, the firstborn, Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
1 Chronic ?, or ?, also called schwa, is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet. In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), minuscule ? represents the mid-central vowel or a schwa.les 8:33
Furthermore, Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, Saul begat Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
1 Chronicle 9:39
Moreover, Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul; Saul begat Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
1 Chronicle 10:2
Moreover, the Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons, and the Philistines slew Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
Abinadab
1. A Levite, a native of Kirjath-jearim, in whose house the Ark remained 20 years. (1 Samuel 7:1,2; 1 Chronicle 13:7) (B.C. 1124.)
2. Second son of Jesse, who followed Saul to his war against the Philistines (1 Samuel 16:8; 17:13) (B.C. 1063.)
3. A son of Saul, who was slain with his brothers at the fatal battle on Mount Gilboa. (1 Samuel 31:2) (B.C. 1053.)
4. Father of one of the twelve chief officers of Solomon. (1 Kings 4:11) (B.C. before 1014.)
Abinadab
The same as Aminadab, b and m is often interchanged in Hebrew.
1. A son of Jesse, one of the three who followed Saul in the war with the Philistines, 1 Samuel 16:8; 17:13.
2. A son of Saul, slain in the battle at Gilboa, 1 Samuel 31:2.
3. A Levite of Kirjath-jearim, in whose house the Ark of God, restored by the Philistines, remained seventy years, 1 Samuel 7:1; 1 Chronicle 13:7.
Father of nobleness; i.e., "noble."
(1.) A Levite of Kirjath-jearim, in whose house the Ark of the covenant was deposited after having been brought back from the land of the Philistines (1 Samuel 7:1). It remained there twenty years, till it was at length removed by David (1 Samuel 7:1, 2; 1 Chronicle 13:7).
(2.) The second of the eight sons of Jesse (1 Samuel 16:8). He was with Saul in the campaign against the Philistines in which Goliath was slain (1 Samuel 17:13).
(3.) One of Saul's sons who persisted with his father in the battle of Gilboa (1 Samuel 31:2; 1 Chronicle 10:2).
(4.) One of Solomon's officers, who "provided victuals for the king and his household." For this purpose, he presided over Dor's district (1 Kings 4:11).
ABINADAB
a-bin'-a-dab ( "father of willingness," or, "my father is willing." This is according to the ordinary usage of the second word in the name-"willing" rather than "munificent" or "noble"):
(1) The man in whose house the men of Kiriath-jearim placed the Ark, after its return from the land of the Philistines, his house being either in Gibeah of Benjamin or "in the hill" (1 Samuel 7:1 2 Samuel 6:3, 4). To account for the ambiguity, note that gibh'ah means hill and that the place-name Gibeah ordinarily has the definite article. It is natural to think that Abinadab was a man of Kiriath-jearim, though the account does not explicitly say so. The record is that the men of Kiriath-jearim were summoned to take charge of the Ark when no one else dared to have it (1 Samuel 6:20, 21); the implication seems to be that they had no option to refuse. Possibly this was due to their being Gibeonites and hereditary "bondmen" of "the house of my God" (Joshua 9:17, 23). However this may be, they "sanctified" Abinadab's son Eleazar to have charge of theAr k. According to the Hebrew and some Greek copies, the Ark was in Gibeah in the middle of the reign of King Saul (1 Samuel 14:18).
About a century later, according to the Bible, David went with great pomp to Kiriath-jearim, otherwise known as Baalah or Baale-Judah, to bring the Ark from Kiriath-jearim, out of the house of Abinadab in the hill (or, in Gibeah), and place it in Jerusalem (1 Chronicle 13; 2 Samuel 6). Two descendants of Abinadab drove the new cart. There may or may not have been another Abinadab living, the head of the house.
(2) The second of the eight sons of Jesse, one of the three who were in Saul's army when Goliath gave his challenge (1 Samuel 16:8; 1 Samuel 17:13; 1 Chronicle 2:13).
(3) One of the sons of King Saul (1 Chronicle 8:33; 1 Chronicle 9:39; 1 Chronicle 10:2; 1 Samuel 31:2) died in the battle of Gilboa, along with his father and brothers.
(4) In 1 Kings 4:11, the King James Version has "the son of Abinadab," whereas the Revised Version (British and American) has BEN-ABINADAB.
Moreover, it was so ordered by the providence of God that David's way to the throne might be more transparent and accessible; for though Jonathan would not have opposed him, the people, fond of him, would, at least many of them, been for setting him on the throne. Though he would have refused it, knowing David was the Lord's anointed and have made interest for him, this would have looked as if he had made him king, and not the Lord:
Abinadab and Malchishua, Saul's sons; also were slain; the former of these is called Ishii ( 1 Samuel 14:49 ); Ishbosheth either was not in the battle, being left at home, as unfit for war, or to take care of the kingdom; or else he fled with Abner, and others, and escaped, and who was to be a trial to David.
1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; the Israelites fled before them, and many fell dead on Mount Gilboa.
2 The Philistines were in hot pursuit of Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua.
3 The fighting grew fierce around Saul, and when the archers overtook him, they wounded him critically.
4 Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and run me through and abuse me." However, his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it, so Saul took his sword and fell on it.
5 When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died with him
It remained there for 20 years, till David removed it.
Why did God strike Uzzah dead for trying to protect the Ark of the Covenant from falling off the cart?
Answer: "And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die." (Num 4:14).
Uzzah was a Levite, and the old saying remains true, 'Ignorance of the law is no excuse.'
The Ark of God was so sacred that God decreed that not even the Levites may touch it. Only the Priests could approach Ark. It was to be honored and revered as the Throne of God, for here was where the Glory of God descended.
David and Israel followed the Philistine method of making a new cart and attaching Oxen to it (1Samuel 6:7, ff). David's excitement changed to self-recrimination as he realized that God would not accept men's ways of doing religion.
It took King David three months to find the proper procedure, and once they followed that, the Ark was safely brought to its place near the Holy City. If there is one thing we can learn from this story, it is that refusing to follow God's directions does not make God go away. God makes the rules, and we are blessed when we follow them.
"Provoke me not, and I will do you no hurt," says God (Jeremiah 2
The meaning of Abinadab in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)
a-bin'-a-dab ("father of willingness," or, "my father is willing." This is according to the ordinary usage of the second word in the name—"willing" rather than "munificent" or "noble"):
(1) The man in whose house the men of Kiriath-jearim placed the Ark, after its return from the land of the Philistines, his house being either in Gibeah of Benjamin or "in the hill" (I Samuel 7:1; II Samuel 6:3-4). To account for the vagueness, note that gibh'ah means hill and that the place-name Gibeah ordinarily has the definite article. It is natural to think that Abinadab was a man of Kiriath-jearim, though the account does not explicitly say so. The record is that the men of Kiriath-jearim were summoned to take charge of the Ark when no one else dared to have it (I Samuel 6:20-21); the implication seems to be that they had no option to refuse. Possibly this was due to their being Gibeonites and hereditary "bondmen" of "the house of my God" (Joshua 9:17, Joshua 9:23). However, this may be the "sanctified" Abinadab's son Eleazar having charge of Ark. According to the Hebrew and some of the Greek copies, the Ark was in Gibeah in the middle of the reign of King Saul (I Samuel 14:18).
About a century later, according to the Bible, David went with great pomp to Kiriath-jearim, otherwise known as Baalah or Baale-Judah, to bring the Ark from Kiriath-jearim, out of the house of Abinadab in the hill (or, in Gibeah), and place it in Jerusalem (1Ch. 13; 2Sa. 6). Two descendants of Abinadab drove the new cart. There may or may not have been another Abinadab living, the head of the house.
(2) The second of the eight sons of Jesse, one of the three who were in Saul's army when Goliath gave his challenge (I Samuel 16:8; I Samuel 17:13; I Chronicles 2:13).
(3) One of the sons of King Saul (I Chronicles 8:33; I Chronicles 9:39; I Chronicles 10:2; I Samuel 31:2) died in the battle of Gilboa, along with his father and brothers.
(4) In I Kings 4:11, the King James Version has "the son of Abinadab," whereas the Revised Version (British and American) has BEN-ABINADAB.
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