1 Kings 9:1
Now there was a man of Benjamin whose name was Cis, the son of Abiel, the son of Seror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphia, the son of a man of Jemini, valiant and strong.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et erat vir de Benjamin nomine Cis, filius Abiel, filii Seror, filii Bechorath, filii Aphia, filii viri Jemini, fortis robore.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἀνὴρ ἐξ υἱῶν Βενιαμείν, καὶ ὄνομα αὐτῷ Κείς, υἱὸς Ἀβειὴλ υἱοῦ Ἀρὲδ υἱοῦ Βαχεὶ υἱοῦ Ἀφὲκ υἱοῦ ἀνδρὸς Ἰεμειναίου, ἀνὴρ δυνατός.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַֽיְהִי אִ֣ישׁ מבן ימין וּ֠שְׁמוֹ קִ֣ישׁ בֶּן אֲבִיאֵ֞ל בֶּן צְר֧וֹר בֶּן בְּכוֹרַ֛ת בֶּן אֲפִ֖יחַ בֶּן אִ֣ישׁ יְמִינִ֑י גִּבּ֖וֹר חָֽיִל
Haydock's commentary
Abiel, who is also called Ner, 1 Paralipomenon viii. 33. (Cajetan)
Strong. Hebrew, "a mighty man of power," either of body, or of riches.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVI
What this is, observe. One of the twelve sons of Jacob was Joseph.…This Joseph had two sons, Ephraim and Manasse. Jacob, dying, as though by will, received those his grandsons into the number of sons, and said to his son Joseph, “The rest that are born shall be to thee; but these to me, and they shall divide the land with their brethren.” As yet there had not been given nor divided the land of promise, but he was speaking in the Spirit, prophesying. The two sons therefore of Joseph being added, there were made up nevertheless twelve tribes, since now there are thirteen. For instead of one tribe of Joseph, two were added, and there were made thirteen. There being taken out then the tribe of Levi, that tribe of priests which did serve the Temple, and lived by the tithes of all the rest unto whom the land was divided, there remain twelve. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
34. “And He rejected,” he saith, “the tabernacle of Joseph, and the tribe of Ephraim He chose not” ( ver. 68 ). “And He chose the tribe of Judah” ( ver. 69 ). He hath not said, He rejected the tabernacle of Reuben, who was the first-born son of Jacob; nor them that follow, and precede Judah in order of birth; so that they being rejected and not chosen, the tribe of Judah was chosen. For it might have been said that they were deservedly rejected; because even in the blessing of Jacob wherewith he blessed his sons, he mentioneth their sins, and deeply abhorreth them; though among them the tribe of Levi merited to be the priestly tribe, whence also Moses was. …