1 Samuel 8:2 names Samuel's firstborn son as Joel, whereas 1 Samuel 6:28 in some manuscript traditions (like the KJV text) lists Vashni. Traditional harmonization attributes the variation to a scribal transcription omission where the name Joel dropped out of the text, leaving the Hebrew word for 'and the second' (vashni) misread as a name; critical scholarship treats it as a classic textual corruption.