1 Chronicles 7:40 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“All these {were} the children of Asher, heads of {their} father's house, choice {and} mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war {and} to battle {was} twenty and six thousand men.”

1 Chronicles 7:40

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And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.

And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.

All these {were} the children of Asher, heads of {their} father's house, choice {and} mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war {and} to battle {was} twenty and six thousand men.

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1 Chronicles 7:1

"Now the sons of Issachar {were}, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four."

1 Chronicles 7:2

"And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, {to wit}, of Tola: {they were} valiant men of might in their generations; whose number {was} in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred."

1 Chronicles 7:3

"And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men."

1 Chronicles 7:4

"And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, {were} bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand {men}: for they had many wives and sons."

1 Chronicles 7:5

"And their brethren among all the families of Issachar {were} valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand."

1 Chronicles 7:6

"{The sons} of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three."

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