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1 Chronicles 5:18

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The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors—valiant men who carried the shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for battle.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were forty and four thousand seven hundred and threescore, that were able to go forth to war.

KJV

The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 5

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

valiant men who carried the shield and sword

on 1 Chronicles 5:18-22

Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors. Verse 20 gives the cause of the victory: because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers; the battle belonged to God.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

These, who were skilled in archery, were invaded in the time of Joshua by a confederate army of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half Manasseh, who, probably incensed by the frequent raids of those marauding neighbors, took reprisals in men and cattle, dispossessed almost all of the original inhabitants, and colonized the district themselves.

The words behind it

25 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.

  • בְּנֵֽי־[the] descendants of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • רְאוּבֵ֨ןReuben

    reuvenH7205 →72 times

  • וְגָדִ֜יand [the] Gadite[s]

    vegadiH1425 →16 times

  • וַחֲצִ֥יand [the] half of

    vachatziH2677 →125 times

  • שֵֽׁבֶט־[the] tribe of

    shevet-H7626 →190 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁה֮Manasseh

    menashehH4519 →146 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • בְּנֵי־[the] sons of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • חַיִל֒strength

    chayilH2428 →246 times

  • אֲ֠נָשִׁיםmen

    ʾanashimH582 →566 times

  • נֹשְׂאֵ֨י[who] carried

    noseeiH5375 →656 times

  • מָגֵ֤ן<of> shield

    magenH4043 →

  • וְחֶ֙רֶב֙and sword

    vecherevH2719 →413 times

  • וְדֹ֣רְכֵיand [who] bent

    vedorekheiH1869 →

  • קֶ֔שֶׁת<of> a bow

    keshetH7198 →76 times

  • וּלְמוּדֵ֖יand [who] were trained of

    ulemudeiH3925 →

  • מִלְחָמָ֑הwarfare

    milchamahH4421 →320 times

  • אַרְבָּעִ֨יםforty

    ʾarbaimH705 →136 times

  • וְאַרְבָּעָ֥הand four

    vearbaahH702 →318 times

  • אֶ֛לֶףthousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • וּשְׁבַע־and seven

    usheva'-H7651 →394 times

  • מֵא֥וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • וְשִׁשִּׁ֖יםand sixty

    veshishimH8346 →59 times

  • יֹצְאֵ֥י[those who] went forth of

    yotzeeiH3318 →1067 times

  • צָבָֽא׃war

    tzava'H6635 →485 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each 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

    Numbers 1:3

    You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 30:14

      Everyone twenty years of age or older who crosses over must give this offering to the LORD.

    • Numbers 14:29

      Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

    • Numbers 33:1

      These are the journeys of the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

    • 2 Chronicles 26:11–13

      Uzziah had an army ready for battle that went out to war by assigned divisions, as recorded by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the direction of Hananiah, one of the royal…

    • Numbers 26:2

      “Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”

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 Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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