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1 Chronicles 12:36 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array: forty thousand. "
1 Chronicles 12:36
Verse in Context
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34 Of Naphtali: one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
35 Of the Danites who could set the battle in array: twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
36 Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array: forty thousand.
37 On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle: one hundred twenty thousand.
38 All these were men of war who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
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1 Chronicles 12:1
"Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the mighty men, his helpers in war."
1 Chronicles 12:2
"They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin."
1 Chronicles 12:3
"The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;"
1 Chronicles 12:4
"Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader of the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite;"
1 Chronicles 12:5
"Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Haruphite;"
1 Chronicles 12:6
"Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;"
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