11 All these sons of Jediael were heads of families. There were 17,200 fighting men ready to go out to war.

Other Translations of 1 Chronicles 7:11

King James Version

11 All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.

English Standard Version

11 All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, 17,200, able to go to war.

The Message

11 - all sons of Jediael and family chiefs; they counted 17,200 combat-ready warriors.

New King James Version

11 All these sons of Jediael were heads of their fathers' houses; there were seventeen thousand two hundred mighty men of valor fit to go out for war and battle.

New Living Translation

11 Each of them was the leader of an ancestral clan. From these clans the total number of mighty warriors ready for war was 17,200.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 7:11

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Genealogies.

Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. We can assign no reason why they only should be omitted; but it is the disgrace of the tribe of Dan, that idolatry began in that colony which fixed in Laish, and called it Dan, Revelation 7. Men become abominable when they forsake the worship of the true God, for any creature object.