◄ 1 Chronicles 7:40 ►
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Good News Translation
All of these were descendants of Asher. They were heads of families, famous fighting men, outstanding leaders. Asher's descendants included 26,000 men eligible for military duty.

New Revised Standard Version
All of these were men of Asher, heads of ancestral houses, select mighty warriors, chief of the princes. Their number enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was twenty-six thousand men.

Contemporary English Version
These were the descendants of Asher, and they were all respected family leaders and brave soldiers. The tribe of Asher had a total of 26,000 soldiers.

New American Bible
All these were sons of Asher, heads of ancestral houses, distinguished men, warriors, and chiefs among the princes. Their family records numbered twenty-six thousand men fit for military service.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All these were sons of Aser, heads of their families, choice and most valiant captains of captains: and the number of them that were of the age that was fit for war, was six and twenty thousand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All these were sons of Aser, heads of their families, choice and most valiant captains of captains: and the number of them that were of the age that was fit for war, was six and twenty thousand.

the number

1 Chronicles 21:1-5 And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel. . . .

2 Samuel 24:1-9 And the anger of the Lord was again kindled against Israel, and stirred up David among them, saying: Go, number Israel and Juda. . . .

Context
The Sons of Asher
…39And the sons of Olla: Aree, and Haniel, and Resia. 40All these were sons of Aser, heads of their families, choice and most valiant captains of captains: and the number of them that were of the age that was fit for war, was six and twenty thousand.
Cross References
Judges 20:15
And there were found of Benjamin five and twenty thousand men that drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gabaa,

1 Chronicles 7:39
And the sons of Olla: Aree, and Haniel, and Resia.

1 Chronicles 8:1
Now Benjamin begot Bale his firstborn, Asbel the second, Ahara the third,

1 Chronicles 7:39
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