1 Chronicles 8:33

Ner begat Kish] Ner and Kish were brothers (1 Chronicles 9:36), so that the text should be corrected to 'Ner begat Abner and Kish begat Saul': cp. 1 Samuel 14 Eshbaal] the 'Ish-bosheth' of 2 Samuel 2:8. The title 'Baal,' meaning 'lord' or 'possessor,' was at first used of Jehovah as well as of other deities (see Hosea 2:16) and entered into several Hebrew names ('Eshbaal,' 'Merib-baal,' 'Beeliada'). But in consequence of the evil associations that gathered round it, it afterwards came to be disused in connexion with the Lord, and in the personal appellations of which it formed part the word bosheth ('shame') was often substituted to indicate abhorrence ('Ish-bosheth,' 'Mephibosheth').