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1 Chronicles 27:31

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Jaziz the Hagrite was in charge of the flocks. All these officials were in charge of King David’s property.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David’s.

KJV

And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David’s.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 27

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

All these - It is observable, here are no officers for state, none for sport, no master of the ceremonies, or of the bounds, but all for substance, agreeable to the simplicity and plainness of those times. David was a great soldier, a great scholar, and a great prince; and yet a great husband of his estate.

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 Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

David was a great soldier, a great scholar, and a great prince, and yet a great husband of his estate, kept a great deal of ground in his own hand, and stocked it, not for pleasure, but for profit; for the king himself is served of the field, Eccles.

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 Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

rulers of the substance that was king David's--How and when the king acquired these demesnes and this variety of property--whether it was partly by conquests, or partly by confiscation, or by his own active cultivation of waste lands--is not said.

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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.

  • וְעַל־and [was] over

    veal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַצֹּ֖אןthe flock[s]

    hatzonH6629 →274 times

  • יָזִ֣יזJaziz

    yazizH3151 →

  • הַֽהַגְרִ֑יthe Hagrite

    hahagriH1905 →6 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֵ֙לֶּה֙these

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • שָׂרֵ֣י[were] [the] officials of

    sareiH8269 →421 times

  • הָרְכ֔וּשׁthe property

    harekhushH7399 →

  • אֲשֶׁ֖רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ[belonged] to the king

    lamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • דָּוִֽיד׃David

    davidH1732 →999 times

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

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The walk

4 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 5:10

    During the days of Saul they waged war against the Hagrites, who were defeated at their hands, and they occupied the homes of the Hagrites throughout the region east of Gilead.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 83:6

      the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

    • Genesis 25:12

      This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.

    • 1 Chronicles 5:18–21

      The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors—valiant men who carried the shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for battle.

    • Genesis 21:9

      But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

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 Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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