1 Paralipomenon 6:34
The son of Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Thohu,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- filii Elcana, filii Jeroham, filii Eliel, filii Thohu,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- υἱοῦ Ἐλκανὰ υἱοῦ Ἠαὰλ υἱοῦ Ἐλειὴλ υἱοῦ Θεῖε
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from 1 Paralipomenon 6:19
- בֶּן אֶלְקָנָה֙ בֶּן יְרֹחָ֔ם בֶּן אֱלִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן תּֽוֹחַ
Haydock's commentary
Eliel. Many of the genealogies do not seem to agree in these first 10 chapters, as some more obscure names have been passed over, (Menochius) or the people had different names, or, through the fault of transcribers, some alteration has taken place, which could hardly be avoided, without a constant miracle. (Haydock)
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 Jerome Against Jovinianus, Book I
23. Next he brings forward Samson, and does not consider that the Lord’s Nazarite was once shaven bald by a woman. And although Samson continues to be a type of the Saviour because he loved a harlot from among the Gentiles, which harlot corresponds to the Church, and because he slew more enemies in his death than he did in his life, yet he does not set an example of conjugal chastity. And he surely reminds us of Jacob’s prophecy, he was shaken by his runaway steed, bitten by an adder and fell backwards. But why he enumerated Deborah, and Barak, and the wife of Heber the Kenite, I am at a loss to understand. For it is one thing to draw up a list of military commanders in historical sequence, another to indicate certain figures of marriage which cannot be found in them. And whereas he prefers the fidelity of the father Jephthah to the tears of the virgin daughter, that makes for us. …