Bible Person
Male · 4 cross references
Malchi-shua is one of Saul's sons who dies with his father at Gilboa. He belongs to the tragic battlefield collapse of Saul's house. First appears in 1 Sam 31:2.1
AI summary: Malchi-shua matters because the cross references place him among the royal sons lost in Saul's final defeat. His death reinforces the scale of the dynastic collapse at Gilboa and the vulnerability of the first monarchy. Genealogical notices preserve his name as part of that remembered loss. Taken together, the material presents Malchi-shua as a royal son whose death underscores the downfall of Saul's house.1
Father
Saul
Meaning: demanded; lent; ditch; death
Mother
Ahinoam
Meaning: beauty of the brother; brother of motion
Central Figure
Malchi-shua
King of help, one of the four sons of Saul (1 Chr.
King of help, one of the four sons of Saul (1 Chr. 8:33). He perished along with his father in the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. 31:2). 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.