Nahshon, prince, etc.] See Numbers i. 4, 7, ii. 3.
¹³and Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third;
13. Shimea] so also xx. 7; but “Shammah” 1 Samuel xvi. 9.
¹⁴Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth;
14. Nethanel] the same name as Nathanael (John i. 45). The fourth, fifth and sixth brothers are not elsewhere named.
¹⁵Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:
15. David the seventh] Jesse had eight sons (1 Samuel xvii. 12; compare xvi. 10, 11). Here one seems deliberately passed over, perhaps because he had no children. (The Elihu “one of David’s brethren” of 1 Chronicles xxvii. 18 is probably to be identified with Eliab and not to be regarded as an eighth brother.)
¹⁶and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai[¹], and Joab, and Asahel, three.
[¹] Hebrew Abshai.
16. sons of Zeruiah] Joab and his brothers are always thus named after their mother; perhaps their father died while they were young, or we may have a relic here of the ancient method of tracing kinship through the mother.