1 Esdræ 26:32

Clementine Latin Vulgate

fratresque ejus robustioris ætatis, duo millia septingenti principes familiarum. Præposuit autem eos David rex Rubenitis, et Gadditis, et dimidiæ tribui Manasse, in omne ministerium Dei, et regis.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
fratresque ejus robustioris ætatis, duo millia septingenti principes familiarum. Præposuit autem eos David rex Rubenitis, et Gadditis, et dimidiæ tribui Manasse, in omne ministerium Dei et regis.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
fratresque eius viri strenui duo milia septingenti principes familiarum; praeposuit autem eos David rex Rubenitis et Gadditis et dimidio tribus Manasse in omne ministerium Dei et regis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

men of valour: 1 Chronicles 26:6-9

chief fathers: 1 Chronicles 15:12, 1 Chronicles 23:24, 1 Chronicles 24:31

Reubenites: 1 Chronicles 12:37

and affairs: Heb. and thing, 2 Chronicles 19:11, There were more Levites employed as judges with the two tribes and half on the other side of Jordan, than with all the rest of the tribes; there were two thousand seven hundred, whereas on the west side of Jordan there were only one thousand seven hundred. Either those remote tribes were not so well furnished as the rest with judges of their own, or because they lay farthest from Jerusalem, on the borders of the neighbouring nations, and were thus much in danger of being infected with idolatry, they most needed the help of Levites to prevent their running into the abominations of the idolaters.

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:11 - Levi Numbers 1:50 - thou shalt Numbers 8:15 - go in Numbers 32:33 - half the 1 Chronicles 6:48 - brethren 1 Chronicles 9:13 - very able men 1 Chronicles 9:22 - David 1 Chronicles 28:21 - the courses 2 Chronicles 23:8 - the courses 2 Chronicles 31:2 - the courses 2 Chronicles 31:17 - by their courses 2 Chronicles 35:4 - after your courses Ezra 6:18 - the priests Ezra 8:1 - the chief Nehemiah 7:1 - the porters Nehemiah 12:24 - according Nehemiah 12:45 - the singers Nehemiah 13:30 - appointed Matthew 25:16 - went

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers,.... That is, the brethren or kinsmen of Jerijah the Hebronite were so many principal men in their families, and men of fortitude and courage:

whom King David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh; all which lay on the other side Jordan; and being so remote from the seat of civil government, and of the worship of God, they were in greater danger of revolting, both from their obedience to their king, and duty to their God; land therefore so large a number was appointed over them, to instruct them and keep them in their duty to both, as follows:

for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king; to see that they kept close to the pure worship and service of God; and were faithful and loyal subjects of the king.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rulers - This term is somewhat too strong. The same kind of office was assigned to Jerijah and his brethren in the trans-Jordanic region as to Hashabiah and his brethren in western Palestine 1 Chronicles 26:30, namely, a superintendence over religious matters and over the interests of the king.