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Elishua

Also called Elishama

Mentioned 1052–1042 BC traditional (Jones)

God his salvation, a son of David, 2 Sam. 5:15 = Elishama, 1 Chr. 3:6.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
David
Siblings
Absalom, Adonijah, Amnon, Daniel, Eliada, Eliphalet, Elpalet, Ibhar, 12 more
Born at
Jerusalem
Tagged in
3 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent. Large families are folded into one node; select it to open them.

Family tree of Elishua: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Elishua, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Jerusalem0

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1077–1017 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 3 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Elishua’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Elishua in 3 tagged verses across 2 books.

Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 2 Samuel1
  2. 1 Chronicles2

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBElishua 3Elishama 16
KJVElishua 2Elishama 17
ASVElishua 2Elishama 17

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 3 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

2 Samuel1 verse
  1. 5:15

    Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,

1 Chronicles2 verses
  1. 3:6

    David’s other sons were Ibhar, Elishua, Eliphelet,

  2. 14:5

    Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet,

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

God his salvation, a son of David, 2 Sam. 5:15 = Elishama, 1 Chr. 3:6.