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1 Chronicles 7:9 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 7 · verse 9
And 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.1 Chronicles 7:9 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 7:9 in context
7And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
8And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- generationstôwlᵉdâhdescentH8435 →
- thousandʼelephhence a thousandH505 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- numberyâchasto enroll by pedigreeH3187 →
- valourchayilprobably a force, whether of men, means or other resourcesH2428 →
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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