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Literal Standard Version

1 Chronicles 9:9

And their brothers, according to their generations, [are] nine hundred and fifty-six. All these [are] men, heads of fathers, according to the house of their fathers.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, the Books of;   Ibneiah;   Jeroham;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Writing;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jer'oham;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Caleb;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and their relatives according to their family records—956 in all. All these men were heads of their ancestral families.
Hebrew Names Version
and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers' [houses] by their fathers' houses.
King James Version
And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.
English Standard Version
and their kinsmen according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers' houses according to their fathers' houses.
New Century Version
The family history of Benjamin lists nine hundred fifty-six people living in Jerusalem, and all these were leaders of their families.
New English Translation
Their relatives, listed in their genealogical records, numbered 956. All these men were leaders of their families.
Amplified Bible
and their relatives according to their generations, 956. All these men were heads of fathers' households according to their fathers' houses.
New American Standard Bible
and their relatives according to their generations, 956. All these men were heads of fathers' households according to their fathers' houses.
World English Bible
and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers' [houses] by their fathers' houses.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And their brethren according to their generations nine hundreth, fiftie and sixe: all these men were chiefe fathers in the housholdes of their fathers.
Legacy Standard Bible
and their relatives according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers' households according to their fathers' houses.
Berean Standard Bible
and 956 of their relatives according to their genealogy. All these men were heads of their families.
Complete Jewish Bible
and their kinsmen, according to their generations — altogether 956. All these men were leaders of fathers' clans.
Darby Translation
and their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were chief fathers in their fathers' houses.
Easy-to-Read Version
The family history of Benjamin shows there were 956 of them living in Jerusalem. All these men were leaders in their families.
George Lamsa Translation
And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and ninety-nine. All these were valiant men, captains over hundreds according to their fathers houses.
Good News Translation
There were 956 families of this tribe living there. All the men named above were heads of families.
Lexham English Bible
and their brethren according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were the heads of the families in the house of their fathers.
Literal Translation
and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty six. All these men were the heads of the fathers to their fathers' house.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And their brethren in their kinreds nyne hundreth and syxe and fyftye. All these were heades of the fathers in the house of their fathers.
American Standard Version
and their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were heads of fathers' houses by their fathers' houses.
Bible in Basic English
And their brothers, in the list of their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of families, listed by the names of their fathers.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And their brethren according to their kinredes, nine hundred fyftie and sixe: All these were principall men and auncient in the housholdes of their fathers.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were heads of fathers' houses by their fathers' houses.
King James Version (1611)
And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fiftie and sixe. All these men were chiefe of the fathers in the house of their fathers.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and their brethren according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six, all the men were heads of families according to the houses of their fathers.
English Revised Version
and their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were heads of fathers [houses] by their fathers’ houses.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
bi her meynees; nyne hundrid sixe and fifti. Alle these weren princes of her kynredis by the housis of her fadris.
Update Bible Version
and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were heads of fathers' [houses] by their fathers' houses.
Webster's Bible Translation
And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men [were] chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.
New King James Version
and their brethren, according to their generations--nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of a father's house in their fathers' houses.
New Living Translation
These men were all leaders of clans, and they were listed in their genealogical records. In all, 956 families from the tribe of Benjamin returned.
New Life Bible
And there were their brothers by their families, 956 of them. All these were heads of fathers' houses by their fathers' houses.
New Revised Standard
and their kindred according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these were heads of families according to their ancestral houses.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and their brethren, by their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six, - all these men, were ancestral chiefs, to their ancestral house.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And their brethren by their families, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these were heads of their families, by the houses of their fathers.
Revised Standard Version
and their kinsmen according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these were heads of fathers' houses according to their fathers' houses.
Young's Literal Translation
And their brethren, according to their generations, [are] nine hundred and fifty and six. All these [are] men, heads of fathers, according to the house of their fathers.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and their relatives according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers' households according to their fathers' houses.

Contextual Overview

1And all [those of] Israel have reckoned themselves by genealogy, and behold, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah—they were removed to Babylon for their trespass. 2And the first inhabitants, who [are] in their possession, in their cities, of Israel, [are] the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim. 3And those who dwelt in Jerusalem of the sons of Judah, and of the sons of Benjamin, and of the sons of Ephraim and Manasseh: 4Uthai son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, of the sons of Perez, son of Judah. 5And of the Shilonite: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons. 6And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers—six hundred and ninety. 7And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, son of Hassenuah, 8and Ibneiah son of Jeroham, and Elah son of Uzzi, son of Michri, and Meshullam son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah. 9And their brothers, according to their generations, [are] nine hundred and fifty-six. All these [are] men, heads of fathers, according to the house of their fathers.10And of the priests: Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 23:3 - as the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 6:18
And I have established My covenant with you, and you have come into the Ark—you, and your sons, and your wife, and your son's wives with you;
Genesis 9:7
And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it."
Genesis 9:8
And God speaks to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Genesis 9:9
"And I, behold, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature which [is] with you, among bird, among livestock, and among every beast of the earth with you, from all who are going out of the ark—to every beast of the earth.
Genesis 9:11
And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not cut off anymore by waters of a flood, and there is not a flood to destroy the earth anymore."
Genesis 9:17
And God says to Noah, "This [is] a token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that [is] on the earth."
Genesis 22:17
that blessing I bless you, and multiplying I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which [is] on the seashore; and your Seed possesses the gate of His enemies;
Jeremiah 33:20
"Thus said YHWH: If you can break My covenant with the day, || And My covenant with the night, || So that they are not daily and nightly in their season,
Romans 1:3
concerning His Son—who has come of the seed of David according to the flesh,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred amd fifty and six,.... Which was the number of the Benjaminites there resident put together, and which greatly exceeded that of Judah, 1 Chronicles 9:6

all these men were chief of the fathers, in the house of their fathers; principal men in the families of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, even all the seven before mentioned.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The discrepancy between the numbers here and in Nehemiah Nehemiah 11:8 may arise from corruption. So in 1 Chronicles 9:13, 1 Chronicles 9:22.


 
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