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• <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_chronicles/27.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(1) <span class= "bld">Now the children of Israel.</span>—This first verse is the heading or superscription of the list which follows.<p><span class= "bld">After their number.</span>—The stress lies on this phrase. It refers to the twelve courses of twenty-four thousand warriors each.<p><span class= "bld">Chief fathers.</span>—<span class= "ital">Heads of the clans.</span><p><span class= "bld">Captains of thousands and hundreds.</span>—See <a href="/1_chronicles/13-1.htm" title="And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.">1Chronicles 13:1</a>.<p><span class= "bld">Their officers.</span>—Scribes, who kept the muster-rolls, and did the work of recruiting sergeants.<p><span class= "bld">The courses.</span>—Here, military divisions, <span class= "ital">corps d’armée.</span> The same Hebrew term (<span class= "ital">mahlĕqôth</span>) was used of the Levitical classes in the preceding chapters.<p><span class= "bld">Which came in and went out.</span>—Scil. The class or corps which came in and went out. Render: <span class= "ital">That which came in and went out every month, for all the months of the year, i.e., the single corps, was twenty and four thousand.</span> As regards construction, the whole verse, from “the chief fathers” to “of every course,” is a long apposition to “the children of Israel.”<p><span class= "bld">Came in and went out month by month.</span>—Every month, the division whose turn it was stood under arms, as a sort of national guard, ready for immediate service.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/1_chronicles/27.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/1_chronicles/27-1.htm" title="Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.">1 Chronicles 27:1</a></span>. <span class="ital">Now the children of Israel, </span>&c. — After the settlement of sacred affairs, we have here an account of the manner in which the army, or militia, as we may call it, was disposed. It was distributed into twelve legions, each consisting of twenty-four thousand men, who were commanded by one of <span class="ital">the chief of the fathers; </span>under whom there were <span class="ital">captains of thousands, </span>such as we now call colonels; and then under them <span class="ital">captains of hundreds. </span>Each of these legions attended one month, for the security of the king and kingdom; at the end of which they were dismissed, and another legion, with their general, succeeded: so that their course came but once in a year, and that only for one month, which was no considerable burden to them. <span class="ital">That served the king in any matter of the courses — </span>In all the business in which the king had occasion for these persons. <span class="ital">Which came in and went out, </span>&c. — Who, being armed and mustered, were to wait upon the king, at Jerusalem, or other places, as the king should see fit. By this order near three hundred thousand of his people were instructed and exercised in the use of their arms, and fitted for the defence of their king and kingdom when it should be needful, and in the mean time sufficient provision was made against any sudden tumults or irruptions of enemies. And this monthly course was contrived that the burden of it might be easy, and equally distributed among the people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/1_chronicles/27.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>27:1-15 In the kingdoms of this world readiness for war forms a security for peace; in like manner, nothing so much encourages Satan's assaults as to be unwatchful. So long as we stand armed with the whole armour of God, in the exercise of faith, and preparation of heart for the conflict, we shall certainly be safe, and probably enjoy inward peace.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/1_chronicles/27.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>This verse is a general heading to the list <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/27-2.htm">1 Chronicles 27:2-15</a>. The heading has been taken from some fuller and more elaborate description of David's army, whereof the writer of Chronicles gives us only an abridgement. Omitting the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the officers (probably "scribes") who served the king, he contents himself with recording the "chief fathers" or heads of the divisions <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/28-1.htm">1 Chronicles 28:1</a>, and the number of Iraelites in each course. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/1_chronicles/27.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>CHAPTER 27<p>1Ch 27:1-15. Twelve Captains for Every Month.<p>1. came in and went out month by month—Here is an account of the standing military force of Israel. A militia formed, it would seem, at the beginning of David's reign (see 1Ch 27:7) was raised in the following order: Twelve legions, corresponding to the number of tribes, were enlisted in the king's service. Each legion comprised a body of twenty-four thousand men, whose term of service was a month in rotation, and who were stationed either at Jerusalem or in any other place where they might be required. There was thus always a force sufficient for the ordinary purposes of state, as well as for resisting sudden attacks or popular tumults; and when extraordinary emergencies demanded a larger force, the whole standing army could easily be called to arms, amounting to two hundred eighty-eight thousand, or to three hundred thousand, including the twelve thousand officers that naturally attended on the twelve princes (1Ch 27:16-24). Such a military establishment would be burdensome neither to the country nor to the royal treasury; for attendance on this duty being a mark of honor and distinction, the expense of maintenance would be borne probably by the militiaman himself, or furnished out of the common fund of his tribe. Nor would the brief period of actual service produce any derangement of the usual course of affairs; for, on the expiry of the term, every soldier returned to the pursuits and duties of private life during the other eleven months of the year. Whether the same individuals were always enrolled, cannot be determined. The probability is, that provided the requisite number was furnished, no stricter scrutiny would be made. A change of men might, to a certain degree, be encouraged, as it was a part of David's policy to train all his subjects to skill in arms; and to have made the enlistment fall always on the same individuals would have defeated that purpose. To have confined each month's levy rigidly within the limits of one tribe might have fallen hard upon those tribes which were weak and small. The rotation system being established, each division knew its own month, as well as the name of the commander under whom it was to serve. These commanders are styled, "the chief fathers," that is, the hereditary heads of tribes who, like chieftains of clans, possessed great power and influence.<p>captains of thousands and hundreds—The legions of twenty-four thousand were divided into regiments of one thousand, and these again into companies of a hundred men, under the direction of their respective subalterns, there being, of course, twenty-four captains of thousands, and two hundred forty centurions.<p>and their officers—the Shoterim, who in the army performed the duty of the commissariat, keeping the muster-roll, &c.The twelve captains for every several month, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/1_chronicles/27-1.htm" title="Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand....">1 Chronicles 27:1-15</a></span>. The princes of the twelve tribes, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/1_chronicles/27-16.htm" title="Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:...">1 Chronicles 27:16-22</a></span>. The numbering of the people is hindered, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_chronicles/27-23.htm" title="But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.">1 Chronicles 27:23</a>,24</span>. The chief keepers of David’s treasures, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/1_chronicles/27-25.htm" title="And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:...">1 Chronicles 27:25-31</a></span>. His counsellors and friends, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/1_chronicles/27-32.htm" title="Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counselor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:...">1 Chronicles 27:32-34</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span> <span class="bld">Their officers; </span> the standing force or militia of Israel as it was settled under their several officers, as it here follows. <span class="bld">In any matter of the courses, </span> i.e. in all the business wherein the king had occasion for these persons, who were to attend upon him or his commands by courses or by turns. Or, <span class="ital">according to all the order or state of the divisions</span>, or, about the companies or courses into which they were distributed. <span class="ital">Came in and went out</span>, i.e. executed their office; which is commonly signified by this phrase, as <span class="bld"><a href="/numbers/27-17.htm" title="Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.">Numbers 27:17</a></span>, and elsewhere. <span class="ital">Month by month</span>; who were to be armed and mustered, and to wait upon the king, either at Jerusalem, or in other places, as the king should see fit. By this order near three hundred thousand of his people were instructed and exercised in the use of their arms, and fitted for the defence of their king and kingdom when it should be needful, and in the mean time sufficient provision was made against any sudden tumults or of it irruptions of enemies. And this monthly course was contrived, that the burden might be easy and equally distributed among the people. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/1_chronicles/27.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Now the children of Israel after their number,.... Not the whole body of the people, but the militia of the nation; for after the account of the division of the priests and Levites into courses, follows an account of the militia of the nation, being divided also into monthly courses; which, though done in the beginning of David's reign, as Kimchi and Jarchi observe, yet is here related; and that it was so soon is clear from the instance of Asahel, who was killed while David was king in Hebron, <a href="/1_chronicles/27-7.htm">1 Chronicles 27:7</a> to wit: <p>the chief fathers; the chief men in the tribes, the princes of them, not the natural fathers of the soldiers in each course, as a learned man suggests (i): since it can never be thought that such a number sprung from those as made a course of 24,000; for they are distinct from the captains and officers after mentioned, under which the soldiers were; besides, why should they be called "chief fathers?" these, no doubt, were the general officers or princes, under which the captains and inferior officers were: <p>and captains of thousands and hundreds; in the several tribes: <p>and their officers; that were under them: <p>that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month, throughout all the months of the year; by which it appears that the militia of the kingdom was divided into twelve courses, which served each month by turns; when one went out another came in; by which means the king was well supported and guarded, and had an army at once at command upon any insurrection or war that might arise; and each course serving but one month in a year, it was no great burden upon them, even if they maintained themselves, since they were at leisure, the other eleven months, to attend to their business; and especially if it was, as Jarchi observes, that not the poor but the rich were selected for this service: <p>of every course were twenty and four thousand; so that the twelve courses amounted to 288,000 men. <p>(i) Delaney's Life of King David, vol. 1. p. 319. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/1_chronicles/27.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Now the children of Israel after their number, <i>to wit</i>, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, <span class="cverse3">{a}</span> which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course <i>were</i> twenty and four thousand.</span><p>(a) Who executed their charge and office, which is meant by coming in and going out.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/1_chronicles/27.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div>Ch. <a href="/context/1_chronicles/27-1.htm" title="Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand....">1 Chronicles 27:1-15</a>. The Service of the Courses<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>These “courses” are not mentioned elsewhere in the O.T.; but in <a href="/1_kings/5-14.htm" title="And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.">1 Kings 5:14</a> (5:28 Heb.), where however the Heb. word is different, courses of Israelites engaged on Solomon’s building works are mentioned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">1</span>. <span class="ital">the chief fathers and captains</span>] R.V. <span class="bld">the heads of fathers’ houses and the captains</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">came in and went out</span>] Came on duty and went off duty; cp. <a href="/2_chronicles/23-8.htm" title="So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.">2 Chronicles 23:8</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_chronicles/27.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 1.</span> - It is impossible to feel fully satisfied with any translation which the words of this verse offer. Yet there can scarcely he any doubt of the meaning of the verse, viz. that the writer would speak of <span class="cmt_word">the children of Israel, including the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, as regards their courses and their number in their courses, as they succeeded one another, month by month, including also all those officers who served the king in any relation to these courses - the courses were twelve, and each course was numbered twenty-four thousand.</span> Meantime, when we turn to the list, we do not find any full complement of <span class="accented">chiefs</span>, <span class="accented">captains</span>, and <span class="accented">officers</span> specified, but apparently only the <span class="accented">chief</span> of each course, with somewhat ambiguous additions in vers. 4 (Mikloth), 6 (Ammizabad), 7 (Zebadiah); while what seems an unnecessary stress repeats the <span class="accented">number</span> each time. This, however, in fact, tallies with the clause "respecting their number" in the first verse, and may constitute the explanation of the apparent inconsistency in question. Milman ('Hist. of the Jews,' 1:251, edit. 1830) says on this military portion of David's preparations, that he "organized an immense disposable force; every month twenty-four thousand men, furnished in rotation by the tribes, appeared in arms, and were trained as the standing militia of the country. At the head of his army were officers of consummate experience and, what was more highly esteemed in the warfare of the time, extraordinary personal activity, strength, and valour. His heroes remind us of those of Arthuror Charlemagne, excepting that the <span class="accented">armour</span> of the feudal chieftains constituted their superiority; here, main strength of body and dauntless fortitude of mind." <span class="cmt_word">Which came in and went out month by month</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> exchanged places in rotation (<a href="/2_kings/11-5.htm">2 Kings 11:5-7, 9</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/23-8.htm">2 Chronicles 23:8</a>). 1 Chronicles 27:1<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/1_chronicles/27.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>The twelve divisions of the army. - <a href="/1_chronicles/27-1.htm">1 Chronicles 27:1</a>. The lengthy superscription, "And the sons of Israel according to their number, the heads of the fathers'-houses, and the princes over the thousands and the hundreds, and their scribes, who swerved the king in regard to every matter of the divisions; which month for month of all months of the year went and came, one division 24,000 men," is towards the end so intimately interwoven with the divisions of the army, that it can only refer to this, i.e., only to the catalogue, <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/27-2.htm">1 Chronicles 27:2-15</a>. Since, then, we find in this catalogue only the twelve classes, the number of the men belonging to each, and their leaders, and since for this the short superscription, "the Israelites according to their number, and the princes of the divisions which served the king," would be amply sufficient, Bertheau thinks that the superscription originally belonged to a more complete description of the classes and their different officers, of which only a short extract is here communicated. This hypothesis is indeed possible, but is not at all certain; for it is questionable whether, according to the above superscription, we have a right to expect an enumeration by name of the various officials who served the king in the classes of the army. The answer to this question depends upon our view of the relation of the words, "the heads of the fathers'-houses, and the princes," to the first clause, "the sons of Israel according to their number." Had these words been connected by the conjunction ו (וראשׁי) with this clause, and thereby made co-ordinate with it, we should be justified in having such an expectation. But the want of the conjunction shows that these words form an apposition, which as to signification is subordinate to the main idea. If we take this appositional explanation to mean something like this, "the sons of Israel, according to their number, with the heads of the fathers'-houses and the princes," the emphasis of the superscription falls upon למספּרם, and the number of the sons of Israel, who with their heads and princes were divided into classes, is announced to be the important thing in the following catalogue. That this is the meaning and object of the words may be gathered from this, that in the second half of the verse, the number of the men fit for service, who from month to month came and went as one class, is stated האחת, one at a time (distributive), as in <a href="/judges/8-18.htm">Judges 8:18</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/17-6.htm">Numbers 17:6</a>, etc.; cf. Ew. 313, a, note 1. וצא בּוא, used of entering upon and leaving the service (cf. <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-4.htm">2 Chronicles 23:4</a>, <a href="/2_chronicles/23-8.htm">2 Chronicles 23:8</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/11-5.htm">2 Kings 11:5</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/11-7.htm">2 Kings 11:7</a>,<a href="/2_kings/11-9.htm">2 Kings 11:9</a>). 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