1 Chronicles 7:2
listed <04557> [whose number.]
This was probably the number returned by Joab and his assistants, when they made that census of the people with which God was so much displeased. We find that the effective men of Issachar amounted to 87,000 (ver. 5;) 22,600 of whom descended from Tola his eldest son; but whether the 36,000 (ver. 4) were descendants of Tola by Uzzi, and the 22,600 his descendants by Tola's other sons; or whether another of Issachar's sons be intended, does not clearly appear; though the former seems the more obvious meaning.
1 Chronicles 15:12
leaders <07218> [Ye are the chief.]
consecrate <06942> [sanctify.]
1 Chronicles 21:17
said .......... decided <0559> [Is it not I.]
sheep <06629> [these sheep.]
done <06213> [what have.]
family <03027> [let thine.]
family <01> [on my father's.]
plague <04046> [that they should.]
1 Chronicles 26:32--27:1
relatives .... respected <01121 02428> [men of valour.]
family leaders <07218 01> [chief fathers.]
Reubenites <07206> [Reubenites.]
matters pertaining <01697> [and affairs. Heb. and thing.]
There were more Levites employed as judges with the two tribes and half on the other side of Jordan, than with all the rest of the tribes; there were two thousand seven hundred, whereas on the west side of Jordan there were only one thousand seven hundred. Either those remote tribes were not so well furnished as the rest with judges of their own, or because they lay farthest from Jerusalem, on the borders of the neighbouring nations, and were thus much in danger of being infected with idolatry, they most needed the help of Levites to prevent their running into the abominations of the idolaters.
family leaders <01 07218> [the chief fathers.]
The patriarchs, chief generals, or generals of brigade. This enumeration is widely different from that of the preceding. In that, we have the order and course of the priests and Levites, in their ecclesiastical ministrations: in this, we have the account of the order of the civil service, what related simply to the political state of the king and kingdom. Twenty-four persons, chosen out of David's worthies, each of whom had a second, were placed over 24,000 men, who all served a month at a time, in turn; and this was the whole of their service during the year, after which they attended to their own affairs. Thus the king had always on foot a regular force of 24,000, who served without expense to him or the state, and were not oppressed by the service, which took up only a twelfth part of their time; and by this plan he could, at any time, bring into the field 12 times 24,000 or 288,000 fighting men, independently of the 12,000 officers, which made in the whole an effective force of 300,000 soldiers; and all these men were prepared, disciplined, and ready at a call, without the smallest expense to the state or the king. These were, properly speaking, the militia of the Israelitish kingdom.
commanders of units <08269> [captains.]
served <08334> [served.]
matters <01697> [any matter.]
one month <02320> [month.]
