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1 Chronicles 5:12

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Joel was the chief, Shapham the second, then Jaanai and Shaphat, who lived in Bashan.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.

KJV

Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 5

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The descendants of Gad lived next to the Reubenites

on 1 Chronicles 5:11-17

Gad settled in Bashan, and verse 17 says the line was reckoned during the reigns of Jotham king of Judah and Jeroboam king of Israel. Barnes reads the double dating as a sign that Judah still held some claim over the tribes east of the Jordan after the kingdom split.

This site's exposition

Joel was the chief, Shapham

This Joel heads the clans of Gad and is a different man from the Reubenite Joel of verse 4. Gad's sons in Genesis 46:16 and his clans in Numbers 26:15 to 18 carry other names. These chiefs belong to the later monarchy.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Joel the chief,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the children of Gad dwelt over against them--The genealogy of the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh (1Ch 5:24) is given along with that of the Reubenites, as these three were associated in a separate colony.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Joel the chief - “Joel, prince of the Sanhedrin; and Shapham, master of the college; and Jaanai and Shaphat, judges in Mathnan.” - T.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

And their brothers to the house of their fathers in the place of their genealogy.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 5:13:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • יוֹאֵ֣לJoel

    yoelH3100 →20 times

  • הָרֹ֔אשׁ[was] the chief

    haroshH7218 →599 times

  • וְשָׁפָ֖םand Shapham

    veshafamH8223 →

  • הַמִּשְׁנֶ֑ה[was] the second

    hamishnehH4932 →35 times

  • וְיַעְנַ֥יand Janai

    veya'naiH3285 →

  • וְשָׁפָ֖טand Shaphat

    veshafatH8202 →8 times

  • בַּבָּשָֽׁן׃in <the> Bashan

    babashanH1316 →60 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Berean Standard Bible, Genesis 46:16; Berean Standard Bible, Numbers 26:15 to 18; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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