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1 Chronicles 8:34

1 Chronicles 8:34 is verse 34 of 1 Chronicles chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

The son of Jonathan: Merib-baal, and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.

Merib-baal is also called Mephibosheth; see 2 Samuel 4:4.

Micah is a variant of Mica; see 2 Samuel 9:12.

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King James Version

And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal; and Meribbaal begat Micah.

World English Bible

The son of Jonathan was Merib-baal. Merib-baal became the father of Micah.

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1 Chronicles 8:32–36 · Berean Standard Bible

32 and Mikloth, who was the father of Shimeah. These also lived alongside their relatives in Jerusalem.

33 Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

34 The son of Jonathan: Merib-baal, and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.

35 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.

36 Ahaz was the father of Jehoaddah, Jehoaddah was the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri, and Zimri was the father of Moza.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Samuel 4:4

And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

2 Samuel 9:6

And when Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he fell facedown in reverence. Then David said, “Mephibosheth!” “I am your servant,” he replied.

2 Samuel 9:10

You and your sons and servants are to work the ground for him and bring in the harvest, so that your master’s grandson may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, is always to eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

2 Samuel 19:24

Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.

2 Samuel 19:25

And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”

2 Samuel 19:26

“My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me,

2 Samuel 19:27

and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.

2 Samuel 19:28

For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”

2 Samuel 19:29

The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”

2 Samuel 19:30

And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”

2 Samuel 9:12

And Mephibosheth had a young son named Mica, and all who dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth.

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