1 Chronicles 12:30
in 1 Chronicles 12From Ephraim: 20,800 mighty men of valor, famous among their own clans.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.
KJV
And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 12
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
From Ephraim: 20,800 mighty men
on 1 Chronicles 12:30-31
Ephraim sends 20,800, and the half-tribe of Manasseh sends 18,000 designated by name to make David king. Keil takes the naming of individuals as a sign that the Chronicler drew on an actual muster record. Bennett notes that these two tribes stand with Judah here, though the kingdom later divides.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
14 These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over a hundred, and the greatest over a thousand. 15 These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
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The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּמִן־ | umin- | and of | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אֶפְרַ֔יִם | ʾefrayim | Ephraim | H669 → | 180 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| אֶ֖לֶף | ʾelef | thousand | H505 → | 505 times |
| וּשְׁמוֹנֶ֣ה | ushemoneh | and eight | H8083 → | 109 times |
| מֵא֑וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| גִּבּ֣וֹרֵי | giborei | mighty [men] of | H1368 → | 158 times |
| חַ֔יִל | chayil | strength | H2428 → | 246 times |
| אַנְשֵׁ֥י | ʾanshei | men of | H582 → | 566 times |
| שֵׁמ֖וֹת | shemot | names | H8034 → | 864 times |
| לְבֵ֥ית | leveit | of [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| אֲבוֹתָֽם׃ ס | ʾavotam | ancestors their | H1 → | 1212 times |
וּמִן־and of
umin-H4480 →1188 times
בְּנֵ֣י[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
אֶפְרַ֔יִםEphraim
ʾefrayimH669 →180 times
עֶשְׂרִ֥יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
אֶ֖לֶףthousand
ʾelefH505 →505 times
וּשְׁמוֹנֶ֣הand eight
ushemonehH8083 →109 times
מֵא֑וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
גִּבּ֣וֹרֵיmighty [men] of
giboreiH1368 →158 times
חַ֔יִלstrength
chayilH2428 →246 times
אַנְשֵׁ֥יmen of
ʾansheiH582 →566 times
שֵׁמ֖וֹתnames
shemotH8034 →864 times
לְבֵ֥יתof [the] house of
leveitH1004 →2046 times
אֲבוֹתָֽם׃ סancestors their
ʾavotamH1 →1212 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 6:4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of…
it leads to
- Numbers 13:33
We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
- 1 Samuel 17:4
Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,
- 2 Samuel 21:15–22
Once again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines; but David became exhausted.
- Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
- Deuteronomy 2:20–21
(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.
- Numbers 13:33
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This page draws on Keil, The Books of the Chronicles; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).