John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 9. And the number of them , etc.] Of the posterity of the sons of Becher: after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour ; as they increased in succeeding ages, and at the time of David: was twenty thousand and two hundred .
Matthew Henry Commentary
- Genealogies.
--Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. We can assign no reaso why they only should be omitted; but it is the disgrace of the tribe of Dan, that idolatry began in that colony which fixed in Laish, an called it Dan, Jud 18 and there one of the golden calves was set up by Jeroboam. Dan is omitted, Re 7. Men become abominable when they forsak the worship of the true God, for any creature object _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew והתיחשׂם3187 לתלדותם8435 ראשׁי7218 בית1004 אבותם1 גבורי1368 חיל2428 עשׂרים6242 אלף505 ומאתים׃3967
