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2 Chronicles 17:14

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These are their numbers according to the houses of their fathers: From Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, and with him 300,000 mighty men of valor;

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And this was the numbering of them according to their fathers’ houses: Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand;

KJV

And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 17

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Adnah, the chief - He was generalissimo of all this host. These are the numbers of the five battalions: under Adnah, three hundred thousand; Jehohanan, two hundred and eighty thousand, Amasiah, two hundred thousand; Eliada, two hundred thousand; Jehozabad, one hundred and eighty thousand; in all, one million one hundred and sixty thousand.

This site's exposition

the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers

on 2 Chronicles 17:14-16

The roster opens with Judah's three captains: Adnah over three hundred thousand, Jehohanan over two hundred and eighty thousand, and Amasiah son of Zichri over two hundred thousand, named because he willingly offered himself unto the Lord. Gill reads the phrase either as service given without pay or, following Kimchi, as gold and silver given to the temple treasury, the same freewill spirit David asked of Israel's officers at 1 Chr 29:5. Spurgeon preached from this verse itself, taking a commander who could lead an army and still obey God as the pattern a Christian employer should want in a Christian servant.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And these are the numbers of them, according to the house of their fathers,.... Both of the tribe of Judah and of Benjamin: and first of Judah, the captains of thousands; some had 1000 men under them, and some one hundred: Adnah the chief; he was the principal commander or general of them: and with him mighty men of valour, three hundred thousand; such a number was under his command.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Thus was his prosperity the reward of his piety and his piety the brightest grace and ornament of his prosperity. Jehoshaphat Succeeds Asa. 1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The army of Jehoshaphat, commanded by five great generals and consisting of five unequal divisions, comprised one million one hundred and sixty thousand men, without including those who garrisoned the fortresses. No monarch, since the time of Solomon, equalled Jehoshaphat in the extent of his revenue, in the strength of his fortifications, and in the number of his troops.
The captains of thousands; Adnah the chief - literally, “princes of thousands, Adnah the prince.” The writer does not mean that Adnah (or Johohanan, 2Ch 17:15) was in any way superior to the other “princes,” but only that he was one of them. Three hundred thousand - This number. and those which follow in 2Ch 17:15-18, have been with good reason regarded as corrupt by most critics. For: (1) They imply a minimum population of 1,480 to the square mile, which is more than three times greater than that of any country in the known world (circa 1880’s). (2) they produce a total just double that of the next largest estimate of the military force of Judah, the 580, 000 of 2Ch 14:8. (3) they are professedly a statement, not of the whole military force, but of the force maintained at Jerusalem (2Ch 17:13; compare 2Ch 17:19). It is probable that the original numbers have been lost, and that the loss was suppplied by a scribe, who took 2Ch 14:8 as his basis.

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.

  • וְאֵ֥לֶּהand these

    veelehH428 →746 times

  • פְקֻדָּתָ֖ם[were] group[s] their

    fekudatamH6486 →32 times

  • לְבֵ֣יתto [the] house of

    leveitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבוֹתֵיהֶ֑םancestors their

    ʾavoteihemH1 →1212 times

  • לִֽיהוּדָה֙of Judah

    lihudahH3063 →819 times

  • שָׂרֵ֣יcommanders of

    sareiH8269 →421 times

  • אֲלָפִ֔יםthousands

    ʾalafimH505 →505 times

  • עַדְנָ֣הAdnah

    ʾadnahH5734 →

  • הַשָּׂ֔ר[was] the commander

    hasarH8269 →421 times

  • וְעִמּוֹ֙and [were] with him

    veimoH5973 →1050 times

  • גִּבּ֣וֹרֵיmighty [men] of

    giboreiH1368 →158 times

  • חַ֔יִלstrength

    chayilH2428 →246 times

  • שְׁלֹ֥שׁthree

    sheloshH7969 →432 times

  • מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • אָֽלֶף׃ סthousand

    ʾalefH505 →505 times

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

Related verses

9 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.

Numbers 1:18and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,2 works2 Chronicles 11:1When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.2 works2 Chronicles 26:13Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.2 worksGenesis 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.2 works2 Chronicles 13:3Abijah went into battle with an army of 400,000 chosen men, while Jeroboam drew up in formation against him with 800,000 chosen and mighty men of valor.2 worksGenesis 13:16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.2 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
Genesis 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”2 worksNumbers 1:2“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.2 works2 Chronicles 14:8Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin bearing small shields and drawing the bow. All these were mighty men of valor.2 works

The walk

8 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

    Genesis 12:2

    I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 7:9

      I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.

    • Galatians 3:14

      He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

    • Genesis 18:18

      Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

    • Genesis 17:4–6

      “As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

    • Genesis 28:3–4

      May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

  • Through

    Numbers 1:18

    and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age…

    it leads to

    • Ezra 2:59

      The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:

    • Hebrews 7:3

      Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time.

    • Nehemiah 7:61

      The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2227, Wanted! Volunteers; 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.

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