1 Chronicles 5:17

17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Yotam king of Yehudah, and in the days of Yarov`am king of Yisra'el.

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 Achi the son of `Avdi'el, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers' houses.

16 They lived in Gil`ad in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders.

17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Yotam king of Yehudah, and in the days of Yarov`am king of Yisra'el.

18 The sons of Re'uven, and the Gadi, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to war.

19 They made war with the Hagrim, with Yetur, and Nafish, and Nodav.