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1 Chronicles 26:9

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Meshelemiah also had sons and brothers who were capable men—18 in all.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, valiant men, eighteen.

KJV

And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 26

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen,.... He had seven sons, 1Ch 26:1 and therefore must have eleven brethren or kinsmen.

This site's exposition

strong men, eighteen

on 1 Chronicles 26:9-11

Meshelemiah's house counts eighteen strong men, a smaller family than Obed-edom's, and each is still named as an office holder rather than a bare number. Hosah of the Merarites is made chief over his own house though he was not the firstborn, his father's own choice standing where the law reserved the double portion for birth order, because the gatekeeper's post asked for fitness, not inheritance. Chronicles marks the exception because it wants qualification, not lineage alone, deciding who stands at the doors.

The words behind it

7 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.

  • וְלִמְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֗הוּand [belonged] to Meshelemiah

    velimshelemyahuH4920 →4 times

  • בָּנִ֧יםsons

    banimH1121 →4930 times

  • וְאַחִ֛יםand relatives

    veachimH251 →630 times

  • בְּנֵי־sons of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • חָ֖יִלability

    chayilH2428 →246 times

  • שְׁמוֹנָ֥הeight-

    shemonahH8083 →109 times

  • עָשָֽׂר׃ סteen

    ʾasarH6240 →338 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 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 26:1

    These were the divisions of the gatekeepers: From the Korahites: Meshelemiah son of Kore, one of the sons of Asaph.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 23:19

      He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that nothing unclean could enter for any reason.

    • Numbers 26:9–11

      and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the congregation, who fought against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah who rebelled against the…

    • Psalms 49:1

      Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,

    • 1 Chronicles 9:17–27

      These were the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives.

    • Psalms 44:1

      We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

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 John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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