Nahath

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. Son of Reuel

• Genesis 36:13 These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
• Genesis 36:17 These are the sons of Esau’s son Reuel: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
• 1 Chronicles 1:37 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

2. Also called TOAH and TOHU .A Levite

• 1 Chronicles 6:26 Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son,
• 1 Chronicles 6:34 the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
• 1 Samuel 1:1 Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

3. A Levite and overseer of the secured offerings

• 2 Chronicles 31:13 Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the authority of Conaniah and his brother Shimei, by appointment of King Hezekiah and of Azariah the chief official of the house of God.

Spelled MATHAH in the N. I. V