The Family of Rehoboam

¹⁸ Then Rehoboam took for himself as wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of ^(A)Eliah the son of Jesse.

⁶ So it was, when they came, that he looked at ^(A)Eliab and ^(B)said, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him!”

¹⁸ over Judah, ^(A)Elihu, one of David’s brothers; over Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;

²⁸ Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s ^(A)anger was aroused against David, and he said, “Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”

¹³ The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone to follow Saul to the battle. The ^(A)names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

^13 (A)Jesse begot Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, ^[a]Shimea the third,