Chronicles I 5:17

17 The enumeration of all took place in the days of Joatham king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

Chronicles I 5:17 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 5:17

All these were reckoned by genealogies
All before mentioned:

in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king
of Israel;
not that those two kings reigned at the same time, and one and the same reckoning is meant; but, as Dr. Lightfoot ^F25 observes, there were two reckonings; his words are,

``in the days of Jotham there was an account taken of the families of Reuben, Gad, and half Manasseh, ( 1 Chronicles 5:17 ) and so had there been in the days of Jeroboam the second; then at their restoring by Jeroboam out of the hands of Hamath and Syria, and now at their arming against the Assyrian, under whom they fell in the time of Pekah, and are never again restored to Israel.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 Works, vol. 1. p. 100.

Chronicles I 5:17 In-Context

15 the brother of the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their families.

16 They dwelt in Galaad, in Basan, and in their villages, and all the country round about Saron to the border.

17 The enumeration of all took place in the days of Joatham king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

18 The sons of Ruben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasse, of mighty men, bearing shields and sword, and bending the bow, and skilled in war, forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty, going forth to battle.

19 And they made war with the Agarenes, and Itureans, and Naphiseans, and Nadabeans,