1 Esdræ 12:14

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Hi de filiis Gad principes exercitus: novissimus centum militibus præerat, et maximus mille.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Iis enim, qui faciebant opus, dabatur ut instauraretur templum Domini :

Nova Vulgata (1979)
[12:15] Hi de filiis Gad principes exercitus, minimus contra centum praevalebat et maximus contra mille.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand: or, one that was least could resist an hundred, the greatest a thousand. Leviticus 26:8, Deuteronomy 32:30

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 13:1 - consulted

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host,.... Of the militia in their own country, and of the men they brought with them; or they were such afterwards in David's army:

one of the least was over one hundred, and the greatest over thousand; not that they were so when they came, or brought over such a number of men with them under their command; but they were promoted by David, when he came to the throne, to be centurions and chiliarchs; according to Jarchi, the sense is, that the least of them would put to flight and pursue one hundred, and the greatest of them 1000, and so fulfilled the passage in Leviticus 26:8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The marginal rendering is preferable. (Compare Leviticus 26:8).