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1 Chronicles 7:11 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 7 · verse 11
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.1 Chronicles 7:11 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 7:11 in context
9And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
10The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
11All 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.
12Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.
13The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- seventeenshebaʻsevenH7651 →
- seventeenʻâsârtenH6240 →
- thousandʼelephhence a thousandH505 →
- JediaelYᵉdîyʻăʼêlJediael, the name of three IsraelitesH3043 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
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We have here a short view given us, I. Of the tribe of Issachar, whom Jacob had compared to a strong ass, couching between two burdens (Gen 49:14), an industrious tribe, that minded their country business very closely and rejoiced in their tents, Deu 33:18. And here it appears, 1. That they were a numerous tribe;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-19