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JPS Old Testament

Joshua 22:14

and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gad;   Government;   Haste;   Misjudgment;   Motive;   Phinehas;   Prudence;   Reubenites;   Uncharitableness;   War;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Princes;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gad, the Tribe of;   Reuben, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Phinehas;   Reuben;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Phinehas;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Sexuality, Human;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Manasseh;   Thousands;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jordan;   Phinehas;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chief;   Father's House;   High Priest;   Household;   Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Phinehas ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Phin'ehas;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Altar;   Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Father's House;   Joshua, Book of;   Prince;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Numbers and Numerals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They sent ten leaders with him—one family leader for each tribe of Israel. All of them were heads of their ancestral families among the clans of Israel.
Hebrew Names Version
and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Yisra'el; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Yisra'el.
King James Version
And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
and ten leaders with him, one leader for each family from each of the tribes of Israel; and each one was the head of his family among the clans of Israel.
English Standard Version
and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel.
New Century Version
They also sent one leader from each of the ten tribes at Shiloh. Each of them was a leader of his family group of Israelites.
New English Translation
He was accompanied by ten leaders, one from each of the Israelite tribes, each one a family leader among the Israelite clans.
Amplified Bible
and with him ten leaders, one leader from each father's household from each of the tribes of Israel; and each one was the head of his father's household among the thousands of Israel.
New American Standard Bible
and with him ten leaders, one leader for each father's household from each of the tribes of Israel; and each one of them was the head of his father's household among the thousands of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And with him ten princes, of euery chiefe house a prince, according to all the tribes of Israel: for euery one was chiefe of their fathers housholde among the thousands of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
and with him ten leaders, one leader for each father's household from each of the tribes of Israel; and each one of them was the head of his father's household among the thousands of Israel.
Contemporary English Version
Each of the tribes at Shiloh sent the leader of one of its families along with Phinehas.
Complete Jewish Bible
With him were ten leaders, one leader of an ancestral clan for each of the tribes of Isra'el; each one was a head of his ancestral clan among the thousands of Isra'el.
Darby Translation
and with him ten princes, of each father's house a prince, out of all the tribes of Israel; and each of them was head of a father's house, of the thousands of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
They also sent ten of the leaders of the tribes there. There was one man from each family group of Israel who was at Shiloh.
George Lamsa Translation
And with him ten princes, one prince from every tribe of Israel; and these men were chiefs of the armies of Israel.
Good News Translation
Ten leading men went with Phinehas, one from each of the western tribes and each one the head of a family among the clans.
Literal Translation
and ten rulers with him, one ruler each for the house of a father, for all the tribes of Israel, and each of them a head of the house of their fathers, for the thousands of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and with him ten chefe prynces amonge the houses of their fathers, out of euery tribe in Israel one.
American Standard Version
and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And with him ten lordes, of euery cheefe house a lorde, throughout all the tribes of Israel, which were heades of their fathers housholdes among the thousandes of Israel.
King James Version (1611)
And with him ten princes, of ech chiefe house a prince, throughout all the tribes of Israel, and each one was an head of the house of their fathers, among the thousands of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and ten of the chiefs with him; there was one chief of every household out of all the tribes of Israel; (the heads of families are the captains of thousands in Israel.)
English Revised Version
and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
With him they sent ten chiefs-one family leader from each tribe of Israel, each the head of a family among the clans of Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the sone of Eleazar, and ten princes with hym; of ech lynage o prince.
Young's Literal Translation
and ten princes with him, one prince, one prince, for a house of a father, for all the tribes of Israel, and each of them a head of a house of their fathers, for the thousands of Israel.
Update Bible Version
and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one [was] a head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
World English Bible
and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.
New King James Version
and with him ten rulers, one ruler each from the chief house of every tribe of Israel; and each one was the head of the house of his father among the divisions [fn] of Israel.
New Living Translation
In this delegation were ten leaders of Israel, one from each of the ten tribes, and each the head of his family within the clans of Israel.
New Life Bible
With him were ten leaders, one leader from each ruling house in every family of Israel. Each one was the head of his father's house among the families of Israel.
New Revised Standard
and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and ten princes with him, one prince of an ancestral house for each of the tribes of Israel, - they being, severally heads of their ancestral houses, among the thousands of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And ten princes with him, one of every tribe.
Revised Standard Version
and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and with him ten chiefs, one chief for each father's household from each of the tribes of Israel; and each one of them was the head of his father's household among the thousands of Israel.

Contextual Overview

10 And when they came unto the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look upon. 11 And the children of Israel heard say: 'Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth to the children of Israel.' 12 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war. 13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest; 14 and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel. 15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying: 16 'Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD: What treachery is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, to rebel this day against the LORD? 17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves unto this day, although there came a plague upon the congregation of the LORD, 18 that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to-day against the LORD, that to-morrow He will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel. 19 Howbeit, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us; but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the altar of the LORD our God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

chief house: Heb. house of the father

an head: Exodus 18:25, Numbers 1:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:21 - rulers of thousands

Cross-References

Genesis 22:4
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
Genesis 22:5
And Abraham said unto his young men: 'Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder; and we will worship, and come back to you.'
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said: 'God will provide Himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son.' So they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:10
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.
Genesis 22:14
And Abraham called the name of that place Adonai-jireh; as it is said to this day: 'In the mount where the LORD is seen.'
Genesis 22:17
that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Genesis 28:19
And he called the name of that place Beth-el, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Genesis 32:30
And Jacob asked him, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And he said: 'Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?' And he blessed him there.
Exodus 17:15
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Adonai-nissi.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince,

throughout all the tribes of Israel,.... The nine tribes and a half, so that the half tribe of Manasseh sent a prince, as well as the whole tribes:

and each one [was] an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel; that is, among the rulers of the thousands of Israel; and so the Greek version calls them Chiliarchs, rulers of thousands; for the people were divided into tens, fifties, hundreds, and thousands, over whom there were distinct rulers, Exodus 18:25. Now these were among the chief of them, of the highest rank and authority; they were the chief princes, heads of several tribes; a very honourable deputation this! the son of the high priest, and ten princes, the heads of the tribes; these were chosen and sent, partly in honour to their brethren beyond Jordan, and partly that they might carry the greater authority with them, and prevail upon them to hearken to them.


 
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