1 Chronicles 12:14

12:14 These Gadites were military leaders; the least led a hundred men, the greatest a thousand.

1 Chronicles 12:22

12:22 Each day men came to help David until his army became very large.

1 Chronicles 12:27

12:27 Jehoiada, the leader of Aaron’s descendants, brought 3,700 men with him,

1 Chronicles 12:35

12:35 From Dan there were 28,600 men prepared for battle.

1 Chronicles 21:14

21:14 So the Lord sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.


tn Heb “one for a hundred the small, and the great for a thousand.” Another option is to translate the preposition -לְ (lamed) as “against” and to understand this as a hyperbolic reference to their prowess: “the least could stand against a hundred, the greatest against a thousand.”

tn Heb “for at the time of day in a day they were coming to David to help him until [there was] a great camp like the camp of God.” The term אֱלֹהִים (’elohim, “God”) is probably used idiomatically here to indicate the superlative.