1 Cronici 8:40

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Fiii lui Ulam au fost oameni viteji, cari trăgeau cu arcul şi au avut mulţi fii şi nepoţi, o sută cinci zeci. Toţi aceştia sînt fiii lui Beniamin.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

archers: 1 Chronicles 12:2, 2 Chronicles 14:8

many sons: Psalms 127:3-5, Psalms 128:3-6

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:13 - Thy servants 1 Chronicles 5:18 - to shoot

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour,.... Men of great fortitude and courage, though their names are not expressed:

archers; skilful in the use of the bow and arrows, as the Benjaminites formerly were famous for slinging stones:

and had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty; so that the posterity of Jonathan, whose genealogy is drawn down from 1 Chronicles 8:34 hither, were very great; and greater still, according to the Vulgate Latin version, in which the number is 150,000 in the edition of Sixtus the fifth, and so in most MSS of that version s

all these are of the sons of Benjamin; his posterity, whose names are given in this chapter.

s See James of the Contrariety of the Popish Bibles, p. 294.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sons, and sons’ sons - This genealogy of the house of Saul appears by the number of the generations to belong probably to the time of Hezekiah (compare 1 Chronicles 4:41). Ulam’s “sons’ sons” are in the 13th generation from Jonathan, as Hezekiah is in the 13th generation from David.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 8:40. The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour — The Targum speaks honourably of them: "The sons of Ulam were mighty and strong men, subduing by wisdom their evil concupiscence, as men bend a bow; therefore they had many sons and grandsons."

Of the six sons of Azel, mentioned 1 Chronicles 8:38, R. S. Jarchi says that their allegorical expositions were sufficient to load thirteen thousand camels! No doubt these were reputed to be deeply learned men. There was a time when the allegorizers and metaphor-men ranked very high among theologians, even in our own enlightened and critical country. At present they are almost totally out of fashion. May they never recover their footing! But what a shameful hyperbole is that of Jarchi! The writings of six men a load for thirteen thousand camels!