1 Chronicles 27:14-34
Benaiah <01141> [Benaiah.]
Heldai <02469> [Heldai.]
[Heled.]
[Heleb. Othniel.]
tribes <07626> [Furthermore.]
These persons, called "princes of the tribes," in ver. 22, and ch. 28:1, appear to have been civil rulers over their several tribes, and honorary men, without pay, not unlike the lords lieutenants of our counties. In this enumeration there is no mention of the tribes of Gad and Asher, probably because they were joined to the neighbouring tribes; or perhaps, the account of these has been lost from the register.
Hashabiah <02811> [Hashabiah.]
Aaron <0175> [of the Aaronites.]
Elihu <0453> [Elihu.]
If Elihu be not a mistake for Eliab, it is probable that he was called by both names.
[Eliab.]
Iddo <03035> [Iddo.]
Abner <074> [Abner.]
David <05375 01732> [David took not.]
It seems probable, from this passage, that Joab began, by David's order, to number the children, as well as adults, but was prevented from finishing the account, probably because the plague had begun. The numbering of the effective men might have been deemed a political expedient; but pride and ostentation alone could dictate the numbering of minors and infants, especially as God had pronounced the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, innumerable.
twenty <06242> [from twenty.]
promised ... make .... numerous <07235> [he would increase.]
started ... count <02490 04487> [began to number.]
so ... number <05927 04557> [was the number put. Heb. ascended the number.]
king's <04428> [the king's.]
storehouses ........... storehouses <0214> [the storehouses.]
vineyards .............. vineyards <03754> [the increase of the vineyards. Heb. that which was of the vineyards.]
olive .............. storehouses <02132 0214> [And over.]
[the sycamore trees.]
The Hebrew {shikmin,} Syriac {shekmo,} and Arabic {jummeez,} is the [sykomoros,] or sycomore, of the Greeks, so called from [sykos,] a fig-tree, and [moros] a mulberry- tree, because it resembles the latter in its leaves, and the former in its fruits. "The sycamore," says Mr. Norden, "is of the height of a beech, and bears its fruit in a manner quite different from other trees: it has them on the trunk itself, which shoots out little sprigs, in form of grape stalks, at the end of which grow the fruit close to one another, almost like a cluster of grapes. The tree is always green, and bears fruit several times in the year, without observing any certain seasons; for I have seen some sycamores that have given fruit two months after others. The fruit has the figure and smell of real figs, but is inferior to them in the taste, having a disgusting sweetness. Its colour is a yellow, inclining to an ochre, shadowed by a flesh colour. In the inside it resembles the common figs, excepting that it has a blackish colouring with yellow spots. This sort of tree is pretty common in Egypt; the people, for the greater part, live on its fruit, and think themselves well regaled when they have a piece of bread, a couple of sycamore figs, and a pitcher of water."
Sharon <08289> [Sharon.]
camels <01581> [the camels.]
Ishmaelite <03459> [the Ishmaelite.]
uncle <01730> [uncle.]
[nephew. scribe.or, secretary.]
son ... Hacmoni ...... sons <02453 01121> [son of Hachmoni. <\\See definition 02453\\>.]
[or, Hachmonite.]
Ahithophel <0302> [Ahithophel.]
Hushai <02365> [Hushai.]
confidant <07453> [companion.]
Abiathar <054> [Abiathar.]
commanding general <08269> [the general.]
