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1 Chronicles 27:26

in 1 Chronicles 27

Ezri son of Chelub was in charge of the workers in the fields who tilled the soil.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:

KJV

And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 27

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the king’s treasures

on 1 Chronicles 27:25-31

A civil list follows the military and tribal ones: named overseers for the treasuries, the storehouses, the fields, the vineyards, the olive and sycomore trees, the herds, the camels, the asses, and the flocks. Two of the herdsmen are named by nationality rather than tribe, Obil the Ishmaelite over the camels and Jaziz the Hagerite over the flocks, foreign specialists managing crown property alongside Israelite officers. John Wesley notes that the list carries no officer of state and no master of ceremonies, only stewards of substance, which he reads as a mark of the plainness of the age.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This was a sufficient strength for the securing of the public peace and safety. Those that are Israelites indeed must learn war; for we have enemies to grapple with, whom we are concerned constantly to stand upon our guard against. He changed them every month; so that the whole number of the militia amounted to 288,000, perhaps about a fifth part of the able men of the kingdom.

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.

  • וְעַ֗לand [was] over

    vealH5921 →5755 times

  • עֹשֵׂי֙[the] doers of

    ʾoseiH6213 →2628 times

  • מְלֶ֣אכֶת[the] work of

    melekhetH4399 →167 times

  • הַשָּׂדֶ֔הthe field

    hasadehH7704 →334 times

  • לַעֲבֹדַ֖תfor [the] labor of

    laavodatH5656 →145 times

  • הָאֲדָמָ֑הthe ground

    haadamahH127 →

  • עֶזְרִ֖יEzri

    ʾezriH5836 →

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • כְּלֽוּב׃Kelub

    keluvH3620 →

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

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.
1 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 1 Chronicles 27 →

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.

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