1 Chronicles 5:17

17 All these people were recorded in genealogical records in the days of King Jotham of Judah and King Jeroboam of Israel.

1 Chronicles 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.

1 Chronicles 5:17 In-Context

15 Ahi, son of Abdiel and grandson of Guni, was the head of their families.

16 They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its villages, and in the entire pastureland of Sharon to its extreme edges.

17 All these people were recorded in genealogical records in the days of King Jotham of Judah and King Jeroboam of Israel.

18 The descendants of Reuben, Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 soldiers ready to go to war. They were skilled fighters who could carry shields and swords and shoot arrows.

19 They went to war against Hagar's descendants (including Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab)