1 Chronicles 7:40
All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
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We have here an account,
I. Of the tribe of Ephraim. Great things we read of that tribe when it came to maturity. Here we have an account of the disasters of its infancy, while it was in Egypt as it…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
of their fathers" house R.V. of the fathers" houses.
the number … to battle was R.V. the number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was, etc.
twenty and six thousand In 1Ch 12:36 the men…