Topic
Ulam
5 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1884–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Chronicles 8:39Smith · ISBE · Nave 2. Son of Eshek
And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
- 1 Chronicles 8:40Smith · ISBE · Nave 2. Son of Eshek
And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, an hundred and fifty. All these are of the sons of Benjamin.
- 1 Chronicles 7:16ISBE · Nave 1. Son of Sheresh
And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
- 1 Chronicles 7:17Smith · ISBE
And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
- 1 Chronicles 17:1–27Nave 1. Son of Sheresh
Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains. Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God…
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 3 references
- A descendant of Gilead, the grandson of Manasseh and father of Bedan. (1 Chronicles 7:17) (B.C. 1450.)
- The first-born of Eshek, a descendant of the house of Saul. (1 Chronicles 8:39,40) (B.C. 588.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
u'-lam ('ulam, "preceding"):
(1) A "son"of Peresh; a Manassite clan (1Ch 7:16,17). Lucian reads Elam.
(2) A descendant of Benjamin who had sons, "mighty men of valor" (1Ch 8:39,40). The Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus has Ailam in 1Ch 8:39 and Aileim in 8:40; Codex Alexandrinus has Oulam in both verses, and so Lucian.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.