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1 Chronicles 7:3

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The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.

KJV

And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.

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Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The sons of Izrahiah - five - There are, however, only four names in the text. Instead of five, the Syriac and Arabic read four. If five be the true reading, then Izrahiah must be reckoned with his four sons.

This site's exposition

The sons of Issachar

on 1 Chronicles 7:1-5

Issachar's list runs four generations deep and closes at 87,000 mighty men of valor. Adam Clarke notes that Issachar, Benjamin and Asher are the only three tribes whose David-era musters survive. Gill traces the large numbers to polygamy, and verse 4 gives the cause: they had many wives and children.

This site's exposition

The son of Uzzi

Clarke notes that verse 4 speaks of five chiefs while naming four sons of Izrahiah. The Syriac and Arabic versions read four; if five is the true reading, Izrahiah is counted with his sons. The Berean text counts all five.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah,.... Including his posterity: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five; together with their father, all reckoned the sons of Uzzi: all of them chief men; in their father's house, heads of families.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Those that were inured to labour and business were of all men the fittest to serve their country when there was occasion, The number of the respective families, as taken in the days of David, is here set down, amounting in the whole to above 145,000 men fit for war. The account, some think, was taken when Joab numbered the people, 2 Sam. xxiv.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

five: all of them chief men--Four only are mentioned; so that as they are stated to be five, in this number the father, Izrahiah, must be considered as included; otherwise one of the names must have dropped out of the text.

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The words behind it

12 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.

  • וּבְנֵ֥יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • עֻזִּ֖יUzzi

    ʾuziH5813 →11 times

  • יִֽזְרַֽחְיָ֑הIzrahiah

    yizrachyahH3156 →

  • וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] sons

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִֽזְרַֽחְיָ֗הIzrahiah

    yizrachyahH3156 →

  • מִֽיכָאֵ֡לMichael

    mikhaelH4317 →13 times

  • וְ֠עֹבַדְיָהand Obadiah

    veoadyahH5662 →20 times

  • וְיוֹאֵ֧לand Joel

    veyoelH3100 →20 times

  • יִשִּׁיָּ֛הIsshiah

    yishiyahH3449 →7 times

  • חֲמִשָּׁ֖הfive

    chamishahH2568 →343 times

  • רָאשִׁ֥יםchiefs

    rashimH7218 →599 times

  • כֻּלָּֽם׃all of them

    kulamH3605 →5413 times

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

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

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