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Good News Translation

1 Chronicles 7:11

They were heads of families in the clan and were all famous soldiers. Their descendants included 17,200 men eligible for military duty.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Jediael;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   Jediael;   Jeush;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jediael;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Jediael;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jediael ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Benjamin;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jedi'a-El;   Je'ush;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ashbel;   Fit;   Jediael;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Benjamin;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All these sons of Jediael listed by family heads were valiant warriors; there were 17,200 who could serve in the army.
Hebrew Names Version
All these were sons of Yedi`a'el, according to the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the host for war.
King James Version
All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
English Standard Version
All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, 17,200, able to go to war.
New Century Version
All these sons of Jediael were leaders of their families. They had seventeen thousand two hundred fighting men ready to serve in the army.
New English Translation
All these were the sons of Jediael. Listed in their genealogical records were 17,200 family leaders and warriors who were capable of marching out to battle.
Amplified Bible
All these were the sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' households, 17,200 courageous men of valor, fit for military service.
New American Standard Bible
All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' households, 17,200 valiant warriors who were ready to go out with the army to war.
World English Bible
All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the host for war.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All these were the sonnes of Iediael, chiefe of the fathers, valiant men of warre, seuenteene thousand and two hundreth, marching in battel aray to the warre.
Legacy Standard Bible
All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' households, 17,200 mighty men of valor, who went out with the army to war.
Berean Standard Bible
All these sons of Jediael were heads of their families, mighty warriors; there were 17,200 fit for battle.
Contemporary English Version
They were family leaders in their clan, which had 17,200 soldiers prepared to fight in battle.
Complete Jewish Bible
All these were descendants of Y'dia‘el, leaders of their fathers' clans, who were brave, strong men; they numbered 17,200, all fit to fight with the army.
Darby Translation
All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, seventeen thousand two hundred, fit for service for war.
Easy-to-Read Version
All of Jediael's sons were leaders of their families. They had 17,200 soldiers ready for war.
George Lamsa Translation
All these were the sons of Ashcol, according to the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out in the army for battle;
Lexham English Bible
All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of the families, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand two hundred, able to go to war.
Literal Translation
all these are sons of Jediael, even heads of their fathers, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand and two hundred going out to war for battle.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
all these were the children of Iedieel, heades of the fathers, valeaunt men, euen seuentene thousande, which wente forth to the warre for to fighte.
American Standard Version
All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, that were able to go forth in the host for war.
Bible in Basic English
All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their families, seventeen thousand, two hundred men of war, able to go out with the army for war.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All these are the sonnes of Iediel, auncient heades and men of warre, seuenteene thousande and two hundred, that went out harnessed to battayle.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All these were sons of Jediael, even heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valour, seventeen thousand and two hundred, that were able to go forth in the host for war.
King James Version (1611)
All these the sonnes of Iediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seuenteene thousand and two hundred souldiers, fit to goe out for warre and battaile.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All these were the sons of Jediel, chiefs of their families, men of might, seventeen thousand and two hundred, going forth to war with might.
English Revised Version
All these were sons of Jediael; according to the heads of their father’s [houses], mighty men of valour, seventeen thousand and two hundred, that were able to go forth in the host for war.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle these the sones of Ledihel weren princes of her meynees, seuentene thousynde and two hundrid, strongeste men goynge forth to batel.
Update Bible Version
All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, that were able to go forth in the host for war.
Webster's Bible Translation
All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valor, [were] seventeen thousand and two hundred [soldiers], fit to go out for war [and] battle.
New King James Version
All these sons of Jediael were heads of their fathers' houses; there were seventeen thousand two hundred mighty men of valor fit to go out for war and battle.
New Living Translation
Each of them was the leader of an ancestral clan. From these clans the total number of mighty warriors ready for war was 17,200.
New Life Bible
All these were sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers' houses. They were 17,200 powerful soldiers, who were ready to go out with the army to battle.
New Revised Standard
All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of their ancestral houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand two hundred, ready for service in war.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All these - sons of Jediael, by ancestral chiefs, heroes of great valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred, ready to go forth as a host to war: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
All these were sons of Jadihel, heads of their kindreds, most valiant men, seventeen thousand and two hundred fifty to go out to war.
Revised Standard Version
All these were the sons of Jedi'a-el according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand and two hundred, ready for service in war.
Young's Literal Translation
All these [are] sons of Jediael, even heads of the fathers, mighty in valour, seventeen thousand and two hundred going out to the host for battle.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' households, 17,200 mighty men of valor, who were ready to go out with the army to war.

Contextual Overview

1 Issachar had four sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron. 2 Tola had six sons: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel. They were heads of families of the clan of Tola and were famous soldiers. At the time of King David their descendants numbered 22,600. 3 Uzzi had one son, Izrahiah. Izrahiah and his four sons, Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, were all heads of families. 4 They had so many wives and children that their descendants were able to provide 36,000 men for military duty. 5 The official records of all the families of the tribe of Issachar listed 87,000 men eligible for military duty. 6 Benjamin had three sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael. 7 Bela had five sons: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of families in the clan and were all famous soldiers. Their descendants included 22,034 men eligible for military duty. 8 Becher had nine sons: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. 9 The official record of their descendants by families listed 20,200 men eligible for military duty. 10 Jediael had one son, Bilhan, and Bilhan had seven sons: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

mighty men: 2 Chronicles 17:13-19

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 7:6 - Jediael

Cross-References

Genesis 6:17
I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy every living being. Everything on the earth will die,
Genesis 7:5
And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came on the earth.
Genesis 7:8
A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,
Genesis 7:11
When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,
Genesis 7:23
The Lord destroyed all living beings on the earth—human beings, animals, and birds. The only ones left were Noah and those who were with him in the boat.
Genesis 7:24
The water did not start going down for a hundred and fifty days.
2 Kings 7:2
The personal attendant of the king said to Elisha, "That can't happen—not even if the Lord himself were to send grain at once!" "You will see it happen, but you won't get to eat any of the food," Elisha replied.
2 Kings 7:19
to which the officer had answered, "That can't happen—not even if the Lord himself were to send grain at once!" And Elisha had replied, "You will see it happen, but you won't get to eat any of the food."
Job 28:4
Far from where anyone lives Or human feet ever travel, They dig the shafts of mines. There they work in loneliness, Clinging to ropes in the pits.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, [were] seventeen thousand and two hundred [soldiers], fit to go out for war and battle. Which, with the above sums put together, make of the tribe of Benjamin, besides what follow, 59,430; who, if numbered by Joab, the account was not given in by him, 1 Chronicles 21:6.


 
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