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1 Chronicles 27:1 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 27 · verse 1
Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.1 Chronicles 27:1 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 27:1 in context
1Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.
2Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
3Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- thousandsʼelephhence a thousandH505 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- captainssara head personH8269 →
- hundredsmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- officersshôṭêrproperly, a scribeH7860 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
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We have here an account of the regulation of the militia of the kingdom. David was himself a man of war, and had done great things with the sword; he had brought into the field great armies. Now here we are told how he marshalled them when God had given him rest from all his enemies.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-15