1 Chronicles 12:36
in 1 Chronicles 12From Asher: 40,000 fit for service, prepared for battle.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And of Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, that could set the battle in array, forty thousand.
KJV
And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 12
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
they were not of double heart
on 1 Chronicles 12:33-37
The remaining tribes are each marked by one distinguishing trait: Zebulun disciplined enough to keep rank and not of double heart, sending fifty thousand; Naphtali a thousand captains over thirty-seven thousand more; Dan and Asher expert in war; and the tribes across Jordan, Reuben, Gad and the other half of Manasseh, fielding a hundred and twenty thousand with every kind of weapon. Barnes reads this pattern as the Chronicler's method across the whole list, naming in each tribe the one thing it was most admired for rather than repeating the same praise everywhere. Wesley reads not of double heart at Zebulun as loyalty without pretense, men who did not publicly back David while secretly hoping for Saul's house to return.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
14 These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over a hundred, and the greatest over a thousand. 15 These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
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The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּמֵאָשֵׁ֗ר | umeasher | and of Asher | H836 → | 43 times |
| יוֹצְאֵ֥י | yotzei | [those who] go forth of | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| צָבָ֛א | tzava' | war | H6635 → | 485 times |
| לַעֲרֹ֥ךְ | laarokh | to deploy | H6186 → | 74 times |
| מִלְחָמָ֖ה | milchamah | battle | H4421 → | 320 times |
| אַרְבָּעִ֥ים | ʾarbaim | forty | H705 → | 136 times |
| אָֽלֶף׃ ס | ʾalef | thousand | H505 → | 505 times |
וּמֵאָשֵׁ֗רand of Asher
umeasherH836 →43 times
יוֹצְאֵ֥י[those who] go forth of
yotzeiH3318 →1067 times
צָבָ֛אwar
tzava'H6635 →485 times
לַעֲרֹ֥ךְto deploy
laarokhH6186 →74 times
מִלְחָמָ֖הbattle
milchamahH4421 →320 times
אַרְבָּעִ֥יםforty
ʾarbaimH705 →136 times
אָֽלֶף׃ סthousand
ʾalefH505 →505 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
7 stopsEach 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
Joel 2:7They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.
it leads to
- Proverbs 30:27
the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
- 2 Samuel 2:18–19
The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,
- 2 Samuel 1:23
Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
- Joel 2:9
They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.
- Jeremiah 5:10
Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
- Proverbs 30:27
Through
1 Chronicles 12:33From Zebulun: 50,000 fit for service, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, who with one purpose were devoted to David.
it leads to
- Psalms 12:2
They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
- John 1:47
When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”
- Psalms 12:2
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.