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1 Chronicles 7:3

in 1 Chronicles 7

The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And the sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.

KJV

And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 7

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The sons of Izrahiah - five - There are, however, only four names in the text. Instead of five, the Syriac and Arabic read four. If five be the true reading, then Izrahiah must be reckoned with his four sons.

This site's exposition

the sons of Issachar were

on 1 Chronicles 7:1-5

Issachar's list runs four generations deep with a troop count at each stage, closing at eighty seven thousand fighting men reckoned by genealogy. Adam Clarke notes that Issachar, Benjamin and Asher are the only three tribes whose David-era musters survive in this record, a detail Chronicles alone preserves. Gill traces the large numbers to polygamy, the tribe's many wives and sons named outright at verse four.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah,.... Including his posterity: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five; together with their father, all reckoned the sons of Uzzi: all of them chief men; in their father's house, heads of families.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Those that were inured to labour and business were of all men the fittest to serve their country when there was occasion, The number of the respective families, as taken in the days of David, is here set down, amounting in the whole to above 145,000 men fit for war. The account, some think, was taken when Joab numbered the people, 2 Sam. xxiv.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

five: all of them chief men--Four only are mentioned; so that as they are stated to be five, in this number the father, Izrahiah, must be considered as included; otherwise one of the names must have dropped out of the text.

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The words behind it

12 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.

  • וּבְנֵ֥יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH11214930 times

  • עֻזִּ֖יUzzi

    ʾuziH581311 times

  • יִֽזְרַֽחְיָ֑הIzrahiah

    yizrachyahH3156

  • וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] sons

    uveneiH11214930 times

  • יִֽזְרַֽחְיָ֗הIzrahiah

    yizrachyahH3156

  • מִֽיכָאֵ֡לMichael

    mikhaelH431713 times

  • וְ֠עֹבַדְיָהand Obadiah

    veoadyahH566220 times

  • וְיוֹאֵ֧לand Joel

    veyoelH310020 times

  • יִשִּׁיָּ֛הIsshiah

    yishiyahH34497 times

  • חֲמִשָּׁ֖הfive

    chamishahH2568343 times

  • רָאשִׁ֥יםchiefs

    rashimH7218599 times

  • כֻּלָּֽם׃all of them

    kulamH36055413 times

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.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.