历代志上 4:27

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

示每有十六個兒子，六個女兒；他兄弟們的兒女卻不多；他們各家的兒女，都不如猶大族的子孫那樣多。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
示 每 有 十 六 个 儿 子 ， 六 个 女 儿 ， 他 弟 兄 的 儿 女 不 多 ， 他 们 各 家 不 如 犹 大 族 的 人 丁 增 多 。

Contextual Overview

²⁴ Simeon's sons were Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul. ²⁵ Shaul's son was Shallum. Shallum's son was Mibsam. Mibsam's son was Mishma. ²⁶ Mishma's son was Hammuel. Hammuel's son was Zaccur. Zaccur's son was Shimei. ²⁷ Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, so there were not as many people in their family group as there were in Judah. ²⁸ Shimei's children lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar Shual, ²⁹ Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, ³⁰ Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, ³¹ Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, Beth Biri, and Shaaraim. They lived in these cities until David became king. ³² The five villages near these cities were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Token, and Ashan. ³³ There were also other villages as far away as Baalath. This is where they lived. And they wrote the history of their family.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

like to: Heb. unto, Numbers 2:4, Numbers 2:13, Numbers 26:14, Numbers 26:22

Reciprocal: Zechariah 12:13 - Shimei

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters,.... None of which are mentioned by name:

but his brethren had not many children: Hamuel and Zacchur:

neither did all their family multiply like to the children of Judah: to show the fruitfulness and great increase of which tribe, the genealogical account of it, in this and the two preceding chapters, is given.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 4:27. Neither did all their family multiply — In Numbers 1:23 the number of all the families of Simeon was fifty-nine thousand three hundred; and that of Judah was, Numbers 1:27, not less than seventy-four thousand six hundred. When the next census was made, Numbers 26:0, the tribe of Judah amounted to seventy-six thousand five hundred, an increase of one thousand nine hundred; while the tribe of Simeon amounted only to twenty-two thousand two hundred, a decrease of thirty-seven thousand one hundred. It was at that time the smallest tribe in Israel.