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1 Chronicles 18:17

in 1 Chronicles 18

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief officials at the king’s side.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

KJV

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

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.

Cherethites and the Pelethites - See the note on 2Sa 8:18. The Targum says, “Benaiah was over the great Sanhedrin and the small Sanhedrin, and consulted Urim and Thummim. And at his command the archers and slingers went to battle.” The sons of David - These were the highest in authority.

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.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וּבְנָיָ֙הוּ֙and Benaiah

    uvenayahuH114142 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔עJehoiada

    yehoyada'H307751 times

  • עַל־[was] over

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • הַכְּרֵתִ֖יthe Kerethite[s]

    hakeretiH3774

  • וְהַפְּלֵתִ֑יand the Pelethite[s]

    vehapeletiH6432

  • וּבְנֵי־and [the] sons of

    uvenei-H11214930 times

  • דָוִ֥ידDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים[were] the first

    harishonimH7223182 times

  • לְיַ֥דto [the] side of

    leyadH30271618 times

  • הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ פthe king

    hamelekhH44282525 times

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

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

    2 Samuel 8:18

    Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 30:14

      We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”

      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;

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 20:7

      So Joab’s men, along with the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men, marched out of Jerusalem in pursuit of Sheba son of Bichri.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Kings 1:38

      Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 15:18

      and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.

  • Through

    Zephaniah 2:5

    Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 25:16

      therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.

    • Jeremiah 47:7

      How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”

  • Through

    2 Samuel 15:18

    and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 8:18

      Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.

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.

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