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1 Chronicles 12:4

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Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the Thirty and a leader over the Thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite;

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite,

KJV

And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 12

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty,.... That came with him, and he had the command of; this man was of Gibeon, another city in the tribe of Benjamin, Jos 18:25. and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad, the Gederathite; one of Gederah, a city in the tribe of Judah, perhaps on the borders of that and Benjamin; Joram speaks of it as belonging to the country of the city Aelia or Jerusalem.

This site's exposition

The chief was Ahiezer

on 1 Chronicles 12:3-7

Seven names open the roster proper: Ahiezer and Joash from Gibeah, Saul's own city; Jeziel and Pelet, sons of Azmaveth; Berachah and Jehu of Anathoth, the town that will later give Judah the prophet Jeremiah. The name Jeremiah itself recurs three times across this chapter's lists, at verse four, verse ten and verse thirteen, and Chronicles distinguishes each man by city or by rank rather than by lineage. A chapter built almost entirely of names still tells a reader something plain: these defectors came from towns loyal to Saul's own house, and left it anyway.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Ziklag--(See on 1Sa 27:6). It was during his retirement in that Philistine town that he was joined in rapid succession by the heroes who afterwards contributed so much to the glory of his reign.

The words behind it

6 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.

  • וְיִרְמְיָ֤הand Jeremiah

    veyirmeyahH3414 →147 times

  • וְיַחֲזִיאֵל֙and Jahaziel

    veyachazielH3166 →6 times

  • וְי֣וֹחָנָ֔ןand Johanan

    veyochananH3076 →11 times

  • וְיוֹזָבָ֖דand Jozabad

    veyozavadH3107 →11 times

  • הַגְּדֵרָתִֽי׃the Gederathite

    hagederatiH1452 →

  • הַשְּׁלֹשִֽׁים׃the thirty

    hasheloshimH7970 →172 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 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

    Joshua 9:3

    But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

    it leads to

    • Joshua 10:2

      So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

    • Joshua 9:17

      So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.

    • 2 Samuel 21:1–2

      During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul…

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 11:15

    Three of the thirty chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 14:9

      Now the Philistines had come and raided the Valley of Rephaim.

    • Isaiah 17:5

      as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

    • 2 Samuel 5:18

      Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

    • 2 Samuel 23:13–39

      At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

  • Through

    Joshua 15:36

    Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah (or Gederothaim)—fourteen cities, along with their villages.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 17:52

      Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron. And the bodies of the Philistines were…

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. 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 Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.

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