1 Chronicles 4:27

27 Shim`i had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Yehudah.

1 Chronicles 4:27 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 4:27

And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters
None of which are mentioned by name:

but his brethren had not many children:
Hamuel and Zacchur:

neither did all their family multiply like to the children of Judah:
to show the fruitfulness and great increase of which tribe, the genealogical account of it, in this and the two preceding chapters, is given.

1 Chronicles 4:27 In-Context

25 Shallum his son, Mivsam his son, Mishma his son.

26 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zakkur his son, Shim`i his son.

27 Shim`i had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Yehudah.

28 They lived at Be'er-Sheva, and Moladah, and Hatzar-Shu`al,

29 and at Bilhah, and at `Etzem, and at Tolad,