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Abinadab
ABINADAB (a-bĭn'a-dăb, Heb. ’ăvînādhāv, the father is generous)
ABINADAB ə bĭn’ ə dăb (אֲבִ֣ינָדָ֔ב, my [the] father is generous [noble] or father of generosity [nobility]). 1. The second of Jesse’s eight sons (
2. One of the sons of Saul who died with his father and his two brothers on Mt. Gilboa in battle with the Philistines (
3. The father of Eleazar, Ahio, and Uzzah at 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. 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 (
4. The father of one of Solomon’s sons-in-law (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
(’abhinadhabh, "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" (
About a century later, according to the Bible numbers, 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 (
(2) The second of the eight sons of Jesse, one of the three who were in Saul’s army when Goliath gave his challenge (
(3) One of the sons of King Saul (
(4) In
Willis J. Beecher