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1 Chronicles 5:13

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Their kinsmen by families were Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber—seven in all.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And their brethren of their fathers’ houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven.

KJV

And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 5

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

And their brethren - This verse is wanting both in the Syriac and in the Arabic.

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

Their kinsmen by families were

Clarke notes that the Syriac and Arabic versions lack this whole verse. The Hebrew text names the seven kinsmen and gives their total. They are the relatives of the four chiefs of verse 12, grouped by family.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And their brethren of the house of their fathers,.... Who were also men of eminence and note in them: were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Shebai, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven; so they are as here mentioned by name.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

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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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

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

11 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.

  • וַאֲחֵיהֶ֞םand relatives their

    vaacheihemH251 →630 times

  • לְבֵ֣יתto [the] house of

    leveitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבוֹתֵיהֶ֗םancestors their

    ʾavoteihemH1 →1212 times

  • מִֽיכָאֵ֡לMichael

    mikhaelH4317 →13 times

  • וּמְשֻׁלָּ֡םand Meshullam

    umeshulamH4918 →25 times

  • וְ֠שֶׁבַעand Sheba

    vesheva'H7652 →

  • וְיוֹרַ֧יand Jorai

    veyoraiH3140 →

  • וְיַעְכָּ֛ןand Jakan

    veya'kanH3275 →

  • וְזִ֥יעַand Zia

    vezia'H2127 →

  • וָעֵ֖בֶרand Eber

    vaeverH5677 →15 times

  • שִׁבְעָֽה׃ סseven

    shivahH7651 →394 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; 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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