1 Kings 4:17
in 1 Kings 4Jehoshaphat son of Paruah in Issachar;
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
KJV
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
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This verse in 1 Kings 4
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThe officials elected by Solomon designate the order of the chosen ones whom Christ affirmed in his grace and appointed as rulers of his people. Indeed, twelve prefects were selected to administer the incomes of this king and his house, because just as many apostles …
This site's exposition
twelve officers over all Israel
on 1 Kings 4:7-19
Twelve officers divide the kingdom's provisioning by month rather than by the tribes' old boundaries, and the districts named mix tribal territory with cities and regions redrawn under the crown. Verse 19 closes the list with a line the bench reads two ways: some take it to mean Geber alone administered all of Gilead where two kings once ruled, others that Judah, the king's own tribe, received no separate officer and no month's charge, exempted rather than omitted by oversight. Either reading rests on the same silence, since the text names no twelfth district lying in Judah though it names every other tribe.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar. In the tribe of Issachar; he had the whole tribe at his command to make a monthly provision out of for the king once a year, as had the preceding officer and the following one.
The words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יְהוֹשָׁפָ֥ט | yehoshafat | Jehoshaphat | H3092 → | 84 times |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| פָּר֖וּחַ | paruach | Paruah | H6515 → | |
| בְּיִשָׂשכָֽר׃ ס | beyisoshkhar | in Issachar | H3485 → |
יְהוֹשָׁפָ֥טJehoshaphat
yehoshafatH3092 →84 times
בֶּן־[the] son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
פָּר֖וּחַParuah
paruachH6515 →
בְּיִשָׂשכָֽר׃ סin Issachar
beyisoshkharH3485 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Kings
This page draws on Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 4:1; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.