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Was Jehu the son or grandson of Numshi?
One identification skips the generation of Jehoshaphat that the other explicitly places between Jehu and Nimshi.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
The shorter son-of-Nimshi formula omits Jehoshaphat but remains consistent as an ancestral identification.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Jehu is called the son of Nimshi
And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel–meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
1 Kings 19:16
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:1 Kings 19
Jehu is Nimshi's grandson through Jehoshaphat
And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
2 Kings 9:2
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:2 Kings 9