KJV King James Version
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons [were] for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
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1 Chronicles 26:29
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons [were] for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
From the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons had the outside duties as officers and judges over Israel.
WEB World English Bible
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
ASV American Standard Version
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Of the Izharite, Chenaniah and his sons are for the outward work over Israel, for officers and for judges.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 26
26 Which Shelomith and his brethren [were] over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.
27 Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD.
28 And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; [and] whosoever had dedicated [any thing, it was] under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.
29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons [were] for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
30 [And] of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, [were] officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king.
31 Among the Hebronites [was] Jerijah the chief, [even] among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.
32 And his brethren, men of valour, [were] two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.
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לַיִּצְהָרִ֞יH3325 · yits.ha.riIzhariteכְּנַנְיָ֣הוּH3663 · ke.nan.yahChenaniahוּבָנָ֗יוH1121 · benson: childלַמְּלָאכָ֤הH4399 · me.la.khahworkהַחִֽיצוֹנָה֙H2435 · chi.tsonouterעַל־H5921 · aluponיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelלְשֹׁטְרִ֖יםH7860 · sho.terofficialוּלְשֹׁפְטִֽים׃H8199 · sha.phatto judge
Cross-references
1 Chronicles 23:4Of which, twenty and four thousand [were] to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand [were] officers and judges:Nehemiah 11:16And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, [had] the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.1 Chronicles 23:12The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.2 Chronicles 34:13Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and [were] overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites [there were] scribes, and officers, and porters.2 Chronicles 19:8-11Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and [of] the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.1 Chronicles 26:23Of the Amramites, [and] the Izharites, the Hebronites, [and] the Uzzielites:
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