Chronicles I 8:40

40 And the sons of Aelam were mighty men, bending the bow, and multiplying sons and grandsons, a hundred fifty. All these of the sons of Benjamin.

Chronicles I 8:40 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 8:40

And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour
Men of great fortitude and courage, though their names are not expressed:

archers;
skilful in the use of the bow and arrows, as the Benjaminites formerly were famous for slinging stones:

and had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty;
so that the posterity of Jonathan, whose genealogy is drawn down from ( 1 Chronicles 8:34 ) hither, were very great; and greater still, according to the Vulgate Latin version, in which the number is 150,000 in the edition of Sixtus the fifth, and so in most MSS of that version ^F19

all these are of the sons of Benjamin;
his posterity, whose names are given in this chapter.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 See James of the Contrariety of the Popish Bibles, p. 294.

Chronicles I 8:40 In-Context

38 And Esel six sons, and these their name; Ezricam his first-born, and Ismael, and Saraia, and Abdia, and Anan, and Asa: all these the sons of Esel.

39 And the sons of Asel his brother; Aelam his first-born, and Jas the second, and Eliphalet the third.

40 And the sons of Aelam were mighty men, bending the bow, and multiplying sons and grandsons, a hundred fifty. All these of the sons of Benjamin.