the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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2 Chronicles 17:14
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the numbers: Genesis 12:2, Genesis 13:16, Genesis 15:5
to the house: Numbers 1:2, Numbers 1:18
three hundred: 2 Chronicles 11:1, 2 Chronicles 13:3, 2 Chronicles 14:8, 2 Chronicles 26:13
Reciprocal: Genesis 49:8 - thy hand Numbers 1:26 - General Numbers 1:27 - General Numbers 1:46 - General Judges 20:17 - four hundred 1 Kings 12:21 - an hundred 2 Chronicles 25:5 - three 2 Chronicles 32:6 - he set captains
Cross-References
that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly."
And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.
I will make an agreement between us, and I will make you the ancestor of many people."
Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants."
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."
"I will establish My covenant (everlasting promise) between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly [through your descendants]."
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and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'
I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And these are the numbers of them, according to the house of their fathers,.... Both of the tribe of Judah and of Benjamin: and first
of Judah, the captains of thousands; some had 1000 men under them, and some one hundred:
Adnah the chief; he was the principal commander or general of them:
and with him mighty men of valour, three hundred thousand; such a number was under his command.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The captains of thousands; Adnah the chief - literally, “princes of thousands, Adnah the prince.” The writer does not mean that Adnah (or Johohanan, 2 Chronicles 17:15) was in any way superior to the other “princes,” but only that he was one of them.
Three hundred thousand - This number. and those which follow in 2 Chronicles 17:15-18, have been with good reason regarded as corrupt by most critics. For:
(1) They imply a minimum population of 1,480 to the square mile, which is more than three times greater than that of any country in the known world (circa 1880’s).
(2) they produce a total just double that of the next largest estimate of the military force of Judah, the 580, 000 of 2 Chronicles 14:8.
(3) they are professedly a statement, not of the whole military force, but of the force maintained at Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 17:13; compare 2 Chronicles 17:19).
It is probable that the original numbers have been lost, and that the loss was suppplied by a scribe, who took 2 Chronicles 14:8 as his basis.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Chronicles 17:14. Adnah, the chief — He was generalissimo of all this host. These are the numbers of the five battalions: under Adnah, three hundred thousand; Jehohanan, two hundred and eighty thousand, Amasiah, two hundred thousand; Eliada, two hundred thousand; Jehozabad, one hundred and eighty thousand; in all, one million one hundred and sixty thousand.