1 Chronicles 12:4 BSB

1 Chronicles 12:4

Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the Thirty and a leader over the Thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite;

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ASV

and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite,

KJV

And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,

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Commentary

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John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty,.... That came with him, and he had the command of; this man was of Gibeon, another city in the tribe of Benjamin, Jos 18:25. and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad, the Gederathite; one of Gederah, a city in the tribe of Judah, perhaps on the borders of that and Benjamin; Joram speaks of it as belonging to the country of the city Aelia or Jerusalem.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְיִרְמְיָ֤ה	ve.yir.me.Yah	and Jeremiah	H3414 →
וְיַחֲזִיאֵל֙	ve.ya.cha.zi.'El	and Jahaziel	H3166 →
וְי֣וֹחָנָ֔ן	ve.Yo.cha.Nan	and Johanan	H3076 →
וְיוֹזָבָ֖ד	ve.yo.za.Vad	and Jozabad	H3107 →
הַגְּדֵרָתִֽי׃	ha.ge.de.ra.Ti	the Gederathite	H1452 →
הַשְּׁלֹשִֽׁים׃	ha.she.lo.Shim	the thirty	H7970 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Joshua 9:3
But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
leads to
- Joshua 10:2
  So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
- Joshua 9:17
  So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
- 2 Samuel 21:1–2
  During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul…
Through
1 Chronicles 11:15
Three of the thirty chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 14:9
  Now the Philistines had come and raided the Valley of Rephaim.
- Isaiah 17:5
  as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
- 2 Samuel 5:18
  Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
- 2 Samuel 23:13–39
  At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
Through
Joshua 15:36
Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah (or Gederothaim)—fourteen cities, along with their villages.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 17:52
  Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron. And the bodies of the Philistines were…