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1 Chronicles 18:15

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Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

KJV

And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 18

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Joab - was over the host - General-in-chief. Jehoshaphat - recorder - The king’s remembrancer, or historiographer royal.

This site's exposition

executed judgment and justice

on 1 Chronicles 18:14-17

The chapter closes as its parallel in 2 Sam 8:15-18 does, with the officer list that shows a kingdom ordered as well as won: Joab over the host, Jehoshaphat as recorder, Zadok and Abimelech as priests, Shavsha as scribe, and Benaiah over the Cherethites and Pelethites. Verse 14's summary, David executed judgment and justice among all his people, reads the wars of the chapter as service to that end rather than an end in themselves. Two small differences from Samuel stand without comment, the scribe's name Shavsha where Samuel gives Seraiah, and the sons of David called chief about the king here where Samuel calls them priests, textual variations the commentators note without needing to settle.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

justice and charity He retired from waging any more wars and from going forth and coming in battle, and he sat constantly and judged Israel fairly.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 18:14:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

9 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.

  • וְיוֹאָ֥בand Joab

    veyoavH3097 →144 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • צְרוּיָ֖הZeruiah

    tzeruyahH6870 →26 times

  • עַל־[was] over

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַצָּבָ֑אthe army

    hatzava'H6635 →485 times

  • וִיהוֹשָׁפָ֥טand Jehoshaphat

    vihoshafatH3092 →

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אֲחִיל֖וּדAhilud

    ʾachiludH286 →

  • מַזְכִּֽיר׃[was the] recorder

    mazkirH2142 →230 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

    1 Chronicles 11:6

    Now David had said, “Whoever is the first to strike down a Jebusite will become chief commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became the chief.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 8:16

      Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 20:23

      Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites;

  • Through

    2 Samuel 8:16

    Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 4:3

      Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

    • 1 Chronicles 11:6

      Now David had said, “Whoever is the first to strike down a Jebusite will become chief commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became the chief.

    • 2 Samuel 19:13

      And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

  • Through

    1 Kings 4:3

    Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 18:6

      Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.

    • Isaiah 62:6

      On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,

    • 2 Samuel 20:24–25

      Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.

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