Traces
Korah and Samuel
How Korah and Samuel are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Korah was an ancestor of Samuel. (traditional identification)
Chronicles traces the singer Heman to Korah through his grandfather Shemuel, son of Elkanah son of Jeroham. It does not say Shemuel is Samuel, but 1 Samuel gives Samuel that father and grandfather and a firstborn, Joel.
Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel
1 Chronicles 6:33, King James Version
The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham
1 Chronicles 6:34, King James Version
The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah
1 Chronicles 6:37, King James Version
his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham
1 Samuel 1:1, King James Version
she bare a son, and called his name Samuel
1 Samuel 1:20, King James Version
the name of his firstborn was Joel
1 Samuel 8:2, King James Version
Where they cross: 1 Chronicles 6:31-38
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
1 Samuel 1:1
1Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
1 Samuel 1:20
20Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord.
1 Samuel 8:2
2Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
1 Chronicles 6:31-38
31And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the Lord, after that the ark had rest.
32And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order.
33And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,
34The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
35The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
36The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
37The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
38The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
King James Version