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3029-3046 B.C.

975-958
daughter Eliab was David's eldest brother; and more than eighty years had elapsed since David, at the age of thirty, began to reign: Abigail must therefore have been grand-daughter to eliab; and this shows the latitude in which the words {son} and {daughter} are used in Scripture.

Eliab

1 Samuel 16:6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before him.

1 Samuel 17:13,28 And the three oldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle...

1 Chronicles 2:13 And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,

1 Chronicles 27:18 Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:

Elihu