1 Chronicles 3:2
His next son was Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, the king who ruled in Geshur town. His next son was Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith.
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2 Samuel 3:4The next one was Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith. The next one was Shephatiah, whose mother was Abital.
2 Samuel 13:20Her brother Absalom saw her and said to her, “Has your half-brother Amnon [DOU] forced you to have sex with him [EUP]? Please, my sister, do not tell anyone, and do not become depressed/sad.” So Tamar went to live in Absalom’s house, and she was very sad and lonely.
2 Samuel 14:23Then Joab got up and went to Geshur, and got Absalom and brought him back to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 15:8When I was living in Geshur, in Syria, I promised Yahweh that if he brought me back to Jerusalem, I would worship him in Hebron.”
2 Samuel 18:18Absalom had no sons to preserve his family name. So, while Absalom was alive, he built a monument to himself in the King’s Valley near Jerusalem, in order that people would remember him. He put his name on the monument, and people still call it Absalom’s monument.
2 Samuel 19:4The king covered his face with his hands and kept crying loudly, “O, my son Absalom! O, Absalom, my son! My son!”
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 3:2-10
The Family of David. ( b. c. 1055.) 1 Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess: 2 The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith: 3 The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife. 4 These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned… Read the whole commentary →