(1 Chronicles 6:28) 28 The sons of Samuel were Joel the
firstborn and A·biʹjah the second.
The firstborn son of the prophet Samuel; a descendant
of No. 2 and father of Heman the Levitical singer. (1Ch 6:28,
33, 36; 15:17) Joel and his younger brother Abijah had been
appointed by their father to be judges, but their dishonesty in
office gave the people an excuse to ask for a human king.—
1Sa 8:1-5.
At 1 Chronicles 6:28 the Masoretic text (and certain
translations) says “Vashni” was Samuel’s firstborn. Scholars,
however, generally agree that “Joel” was in the original
Hebrew, a reading retained by the Syriac Peshitta and the
Lagardian edition of the Greek Septuagint. (Compare 1Sa
8:2.) Similarity between “Joel” and the ending of a preceding
word in the text (“Samuel”) possibly caused a scribe
inadvertently to drop the name “Joel” altogether. Seemingly,
he then mistook the Hebrew word wehash·she·niʹ (meaning
“and the second [son]”) for the proper name “Vashni” and
inserted the letter waw (and) before the name Abijah.
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