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 7:40
were <04557> [the number.]
1 Chronicles 11:11
Jashobeam <03434> [Jashobeam.]
The Tachmonite, Adino, the Eznite.
Hacmonite <02453> [an Hachmonite. or, son of Hachmoni.]
1 Chronicles 21:2
Joab <03097> [Joab.]
Beer Sheba <0884> [Beer-sheba.]
bring <0935> [bring.]
know <03045> [that I may.]
1 Chronicles 21:5
1,100,000 ....... 470,000 <0505> [a thousand.]
The Syriac has 800,000 as in the parallel passage of Samuel.
1 Chronicles 23:24
descendants ... Levi .............................. old <03878 01121> [the sons of Levi.]
families ..................... temple <01004> [after the house.]
individually <01538> [by their polls.]
descendants ................................ old <01121> [from the age.]
At first David appointed the Levites to serve from thirty years old and upwards; but considering, probably, that the temple which was about to be built, with its courts, chambers, etc., would require a more numerous ministry, he fixed this period, by this subsequent regulation, at twenty years and upwards. In the time of Moses, the age was from thirty years to fifty: here this latter period is not mentioned, probably because the service was not so laborious now; for the ark being fixed, they had no longer any burdens to carry; and therefore even an old man might continue to serve. See the Note on Nu 8:24.
twenty <06242> [twenty.]
1 Chronicles 27:1
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.]
