VASHNI . Samuel’s firstborn son, according to MT [Note: Massoretic Text.] of 1 Chronicles 6:13 (Eng. 28), which is followed by AV [Note: Authorized Version.] . RV [Note: Revised Version.] , following the Syr. (see mg.), and on the strength of 1 Chronicles 6:18 (33) and the || 1 Samuel 8:2 , supplies Joel as the name of Samuel’s oldest son, and substitutes ‘and the second Abiah’ for ‘Vashni and Abiah.’