1 Chronicles 7:2 BSB

1 Chronicles 7:2

The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their families. In the days of David, 22,600 descendants of Tola were numbered in their genealogies as mighty men of valor.

BSB

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ASV

And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, to wit, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

KJV

And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Whose number was in the days of David - Whether this was the number returned by Joab and his assistants, when they made that census of the people with which God was so much displeased, we know not. It is worthy of remark that we read here the sum of three tribes, Benjamin, Issachar, and Asher, under the reign of David, which is mentioned nowhere else; and yet we have no account here of the other tribes, probably because the author found no public registers in which such enumeration was recorded.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבְנֵ֣י	u.ve.Nei	and [the] sons of	H1121 →
תוֹלָ֗ע	to.La'	Tola	H8439 →
עֻזִּ֡י	'u.Zi	Uzzi	H5813 →
וּרְפָיָ֡ה	u.re.fa.Yah	and Rephaiah	H7509 →
וִֽ֠ירִיאֵל	Vi.ri.'el	and Jeriel	H3400 →
וְיַחְמַ֨י	ve.yach.Mai	and Jahmai	H3181 →
וְיִבְשָׂ֜ם	ve.yiv.Sam	and Jibsam	H3005 →
וּשְׁמוּאֵ֗ל	u.she.mu.'El	and Samuel	H8050 →
רָאשִׁ֤ים	ra.Shim	chiefs	H7218 →
לְבֵית־	le.veit-	of [the] house of	H1004 →
אֲבוֹתָם֙	'a.vo.Tam	ancestors their	H1 →
לְתוֹלָ֔ע	le.to.La'	of Tola	H8439 →
גִּבּ֥וֹרֵי	gi.Bo.rei	mighty [men] of	H1368 →
חַ֖יִל	Cha.yil	strength	H2428 →
לְתֹלְדוֹתָ֑ם	le.to.le.do.Tam	to generations their	H8435 →
מִסְפָּרָם֙	mis.pa.Ram	number their	H4557 →
בִּימֵ֣י	bi.Mei	in [the] days of	H3117 →
דָוִ֔יד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
עֶשְׂרִֽים־	'es.rim-	[was] twenty	H6242 →
וּשְׁנַ֥יִם	u.she.Na.yim	and two	H8147 →
אֶ֖לֶף	'E.lef	thousand	H505 →
וְשֵׁ֥שׁ	ve.Shesh	and six	H8337 →
מֵאֽוֹת׃ ס	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →

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