1 Chronicles 4:27 BSB

1 Chronicles 4:27

Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, so their whole clan did not become as numerous as the sons of Judah.

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ASV

And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply like to the children of Judah.

KJV

And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Neither did all their family multiply - In Num 1:23 the number of all the families of Simeon was fifty-nine thousand three hundred; and that of Judah was, Num 1:27, not less than seventy-four thousand six hundred. When the next census was made, Num. 26, the tribe of Judah amounted to seventy-six thousand five hundred, an increase of one thousand nine hundred; while the tribe of Simeon amounted only to twenty-two thousand two hundred, a decrease of thirty-seven thousand one hundred. It was at that time the smallest tribe in Israel.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Of Judah - The tribe of Simeon did not increase proportionably to the tribe of Judah in which they dwelt; as appears by those two catalogues, Num. i, 22; xxvi, 14, which is to be ascribed to God's curse upon them, delivered by the mouth of holy Jacob, Gen. xlix, 5-7, and signified by Moses's neglect of them when he blessed all the other tribes.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּלְשִׁמְעִ֞י	u.le.shim.'I	and [belonged] to Shimei	H8096 →
בָּנִ֨ים	ba.Nim	sons	H1121 →
שִׁשָּׁ֤ה	shi.Shah	six-	H8337 →
עָשָׂר֙	'a.Sar	teen	H6240 →
וּבָנ֣וֹת	u.va.Not	and daughters	H1323 →
שֵׁ֔שׁ	Shesh	six	H8337 →
וּלְאֶחָ֕יו	u.le.'e.Chav	and [belonged] to brothers his	H251 →
אֵ֖ין	'ein	not	H369 →
בָּנִ֣ים	ba.Nim	sons	H1121 →
רַבִּ֑ים	ra.Bim	many	H7227 →
וְכֹל֙	ve.Khol	and all	H3605 →
מִשְׁפַּחְתָּ֔ם	mish.pach.Tam	clan their	H4940 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
הִרְבּ֖וּ	hir.Bu	they increased	H7235 →
עַד־	'ad-	up to	H5704 →
בְּנֵ֥י	be.Nei	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
יְהוּדָֽה׃ ס	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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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
Numbers 2:13
and his division numbers 59,300.
leads to
- Numbers 26:14
  These were the clans of Simeon, and there were 22,200 men.
- Numbers 1:23
  those registered to the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.
Through
Numbers 2:4
The leader of the descendants of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab, and his division numbers 74,600.
leads to
- Numbers 26:22
  These were the clans of Judah, and their registration numbered 76,500.
- Numbers 1:27
  those registered to the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.
Through
Numbers 26:14
These were the clans of Simeon, and there were 22,200 men.
leads to
- Numbers 2:12–13
  The tribe of Simeon will camp next to it. The leader of the Simeonites is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai,
- Numbers 1:22–23
  From the sons of Simeon, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the…
Through
Numbers 26:22
These were the clans of Judah, and their registration numbered 76,500.
leads to
- Numbers 2:3–4
  On the east side, toward the sunrise, the divisions of Judah are to camp under their standard:
- Numbers 1:26–27
  From the sons of Judah, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

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