Adnah

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. One of David's captains1 Chronicles 12:20
• 2. A military chief2 Chronicles 17:14

The passages, in Bible order (2)

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1. 1 Chronicles 12:20

   When David went to Ziklag, these men of Manasseh defected to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh.

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   “As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh,.... Others besides the former, who joined him when he went with the Philistines; these joined him when he was dismissed from them, and was returning to Ziklag: namely: Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh; that tribe being, as the rest were, divided into hundreds and thousands; these were captains over the thousands of the militia of the tribe.

   “21, 22. they helped David against the band--that is, the Amalekites who had pillaged Ziklag in David's absence. This military expedition was made by all his men (1Sa 30:9), who, as David's early helpers, are specially distinguished from those who are mentioned in the latter portion of the chapter.

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2. 2 Chronicles 17:14

   These are their numbers according to the houses of their fathers: From Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, and with him 300,000 mighty men of valor;

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   “And these are the numbers of them, according to the house of their fathers,.... Both of the tribe of Judah and of Benjamin: and first of Judah, the captains of thousands; some had 1000 men under them, and some one hundred: Adnah the chief; he was the principal commander or general of them: and with him mighty men of valour, three hundred thousand; such a number was under his command.

   “Adnah, the chief - He was generalissimo of all this host. These are the numbers of the five battalions: under Adnah, three hundred thousand; Jehohanan, two hundred and eighty thousand, Amasiah, two hundred thousand; Eliada, two hundred thousand; Jehozabad, one hundred and eighty thousand; in all, one million one hundred and sixty thousand.

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