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Complete Jewish Bible

1 Chronicles 7:9

Listed in genealogical records by generations under leaders of fathers' clans, who were strong, brave men, were 20,200.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Benjamin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Benjamin, Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Uzzi;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Genealogies;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Benjamin;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ashbel;   Pedigree;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Benjamin;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their family records were recorded according to the heads of their ancestral families—20,200 valiant warriors.
Hebrew Names Version
They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
King James Version
And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
English Standard Version
And their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, was 20,200.
New Century Version
Their family history listed the family leaders and twenty thousand two hundred fighting men.
New English Translation
There were 20,200 family leaders and warriors listed in their genealogical records.
Amplified Bible
They were registered by their genealogies according to their generations, as heads of their fathers' households, courageous men, 20,200 in number.
New American Standard Bible
They were registered by genealogy according to their generations, heads of their fathers' households, 20,200 valiant warriors.
World English Bible
They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they were nombred by their genealogies according to their generations, and the chiefe of the houses of their fathers, valiant men of warre, twenty thousand and two hundreth.
Legacy Standard Bible
They were recorded by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers' households, 20,200 mighty men of valor.
Berean Standard Bible
Their genealogies were recorded according to the heads of their families-20,200 mighty warriors.
Contemporary English Version
The official family records listed 20,200 soldiers in the families of this clan, as well as their family leaders.
Darby Translation
And they were registered by their genealogy by their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valour, twenty thousand two hundred.
Easy-to-Read Version
Their family history shows who the family leaders were. And it also shows they had 20,200 soldiers.
George Lamsa Translation
And their number, according to their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, valiant men, was twenty-two thousand and two hundred.
Good News Translation
The official record of their descendants by families listed 20,200 men eligible for military duty.
Lexham English Bible
And their enrollment by genealogy according to their generations, as heads of the house of their fathers, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred.
Literal Translation
And their genealogy, by their generations, heads of their fathers' house, mighty warriors, twenty thousand and two hundred.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and were rekened in their kinreds after the heades in the house of their fathers, valeaunt men, twentie thousande, and two hundreth.
American Standard Version
And they were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand and two hundred.
Bible in Basic English
And they were recorded by their generations, heads of their families, great men of war, twenty thousand, two hundred.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the number of them after their genealogie and generations, & captaynes of the housholdes of their fathers, men of might [were] twentie thousande and two hundred.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valour, twenty thousand and two hundred.
King James Version (1611)
And the number of them, after their genealogie by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mightie men of valour, was twentie thousand and two hundred.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And their number according to their generations, (they were chiefs of their fathers’ houses, men of might), was twenty thousand and two hundred.
English Revised Version
And they were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valour, twenty thousand and two hundred.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli the princes of kynredis weren noumbrid bi her meynees twenti thousynde and two hundrid moost stronge men to batels.
Update Bible Version
And they were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand and two hundred.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valor, [was] twenty thousand and two hundred.
New King James Version
And they were recorded by genealogy according to their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, twenty thousand two hundred mighty men of valor.
New Living Translation
Each of them was the leader of an ancestral clan. The total number of mighty warriors and leaders from these clans was 20,200, as listed in their genealogical records.
New Life Bible
Their names were written down by their families. They were heads of their fathers' houses, 20,200 powerful soldiers.
New Revised Standard
and their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their ancestral houses, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when they had registered themselves by their generations, the chiefs of their ancestral house, the heroes of valour, were twenty thousand and two hundred.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they were numbered by the families, heads of their kindreds, most valiant men for war, twenty thousand and two hundred.
Revised Standard Version
and their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred.
Young's Literal Translation
with their genealogy, after their generations, heads of a house of their fathers, mighty of valour, twenty thousand and two hundred.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They were enrolled by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers' households, 20,200 mighty men of valor.

Contextual Overview

1 The sons of Yissakhar were: Tola, Pu'ah, Yashuv and Shimron — four. 2 The sons of Tola were: ‘Uzi, Refayah, Yeri'el, Yachmai, Yivsam and Sh'mu'el. They were heads of their fathers' clans, descended from Tola; they were strong, brave men in their generations. In the time of David they numbered 22,600. 3 The son of ‘Uzi was Yizrachyah, and the sons of Yizrachyah were: Mikha'el, ‘Ovadyah, Yo'el and Yishiyah — five, all of them leaders. 4 With them, by their generations, in their fathers' clans, were army troops organized for war, 36,000 of them, because they had many women and children. 5 Their kinsmen among all the clans of Yissakhar, strong, brave men, numbered 87,000, listed in genealogical records. 6 [The sons of] Binyamin were: Bela, Bekher and Y'dia‘el — three. 7 The sons of Bela were: Etzbon, ‘Uzi, ‘Uzi'el, Yerimot and ‘Iri — five; they were leaders of fathers' clans, strong, brave men. They numbered 22,034, listed in genealogical records. 8 The sons of Bekher were: Z'mirah, Yo'ash, Eli‘ezer, Elyo‘enai, ‘Omri, Yeremot, Aviyah, ‘Anatot and ‘Alemet; all these were sons of Bekher. 9 Listed in genealogical records by generations under leaders of fathers' clans, who were strong, brave men, were 20,200. 10 The son of Y'dia‘el was Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan were: Ye‘ush, Binyamin, Ehud, Kena‘anah, Zeitan, Tarshish and Achishachar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 2:19
So from the ground Adonai , God, formed every wild animal and every bird that flies in the air, and he brought them to the person to see what he would call them. Whatever the person would call each living creature, that was to be its name.
Genesis 7:6
Noach was 600 years old when the water flooded the earth.
Genesis 7:9
couples, male and female, went in to Noach in the ark, as God had ordered Noach.
Genesis 7:11
On the seventeenth day of the second month of the 600th year of Noach's life all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the sky were opened.
Genesis 7:12
It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:16
Those that entered went in, male and female, from every kind of living being, as God had ordered him; and Adonai shut him inside.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion eat straw like an ox (but the serpent — its food will be dust). They will not hurt or destroy anywhere on my holy mountain," says Adonai .
Jeremiah 8:7
Storks in the sky know their seasons; doves, swallows and cranes their migration times; but my people do not know the rulings of Adonai !
Galatians 3:28
there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor freeman, neither male nor female; for in union with the Messiah Yeshua, you are all one.
Colossians 3:11
The new self allows no room for discriminating between Gentile and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, foreigner, savage, slave, free man; on the contrary, in all, the Messiah is everything.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the number of them,.... Of the posterity of the sons of Becher:

after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; as they increased in succeeding ages, and at the time of David:

was twenty thousand and two hundred.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The lists here are remarkably different from those in marginal references Probably the persons here mentioned were not literally “sons,” but were among the later descendants of the founders, being the chief men of the family at the time of David’s census.


 
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