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1 Chronicles 7:11

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Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. All these sons of Jediael were heads of their families, mighty men of valor; there were 17,200 fit for battle.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, that were able to go forth in the host for war.

KJV

All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.

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Commentary

2 notes on this verse
All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle. Which, with the above sums put together, make of the tribe of Benjamin, besides what follow, 59,430; who, if numbered by Joab, the account was not given in by him, 1Ch 21:6.

This site's exposition

The sons of Benjamin; Bela

on 1 Chronicles 7:6-12

Benjamin's three clans muster to nearly sixty thousand men, a genealogy Barnes reads as later descendants reckoned to their founders rather than a strict father to son list at the time of David's census. Gill takes verse ten's Ehud, among Jediael's grandsons, as the same man who later judged Israel in Judges 3:15, a reading other commentators do not share. Verse twelve's Shuppim, Huppim and Hushim stand outside the three named clans, and the older commentators disagree over which son of Benjamin they belong to.

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What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

And Shuppim and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher Ezra, who wrote this book of genealogy, did not know whether they were of the sons of Benjamin or not. He therefore listed them alone.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 7:12:1, 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. 3 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

15 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.

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֵ֜לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • בְּנֵ֤י[were] [the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יְדִֽיעֲאֵל֙Jediael

    yediaelH3043 →6 times

  • לְרָאשֵׁ֣יto [the] chiefs of

    lerasheiH7218 →599 times

  • הָאָב֔וֹתthe fathers

    haavotH1 →1212 times

  • גִּבּוֹרֵ֖יmighty [men] of

    giboreiH1368 →158 times

  • חֲיָלִ֑יםstrength<s>

    chayalimH2428 →246 times

  • שִׁבְעָֽה־seven-

    shivah-H7651 →394 times

  • עָשָׂ֥רteen

    ʾasarH6240 →338 times

  • אֶ֙לֶף֙thousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • וּמָאתַ֔יִםand two hundred

    umatayimH3967 →581 times

  • יֹצְאֵ֥י[those who] went forth of

    yotzeeiH3318 →1067 times

  • צָבָ֖אwar

    tzava'H6635 →485 times

  • לַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃for <the> battle

    lamilchamahH4421 →320 times

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

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Chronicles 17:13–19and kept vast supplies in the cities of Judah. He also had warriors in Jerusalem who were mighty men of valor.2 works

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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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