1 Chronicles 19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments
  • 1 Chronicles 19:1 open_in_new

    Compare the marginal references and notes. The writer here adds one or two touches, and varies in one or two of the numbers.

  • 1 Chronicles 19:2 open_in_new

    Hanun - A Philistine king of this name is mentioned in the Assyrian inscriptions as paying tribute to Tiglath-pileser and warring with Sargon.

  • 1 Chronicles 19:7 open_in_new

    They hired thirty and two thousand chariots - The reading is corrupt. Such a number as 32,000 chariots alone was never brought into battle on any occasion. Compare the numbers in Exodus 14:7; 1 Kings 10:26; 2 Chronicles 12:3. The largest force which an Assyrian king ever speaks of encountering is 3,940. The words “and horsemen” have probably fallen out of the text after the word “chariots” (compare 1 Chronicles 19:6). The 32,000 would be the number of the warriors serving on horseback or in chariots; and this number would agree closely with 2 Samuel 10:6, as the following table shows:



    2 Samuel 10:6

    Men

    Syrians of Beth-rehob and Zobah

    20,000

    Syrians of Ish-tob

    12,000

    Syrians of Maachah

    1,000

    Total

    33,000

    1 Chronicles 19:7

    Men

    Syrians of Zobah, etc.

    32,000

    Syrians of Machah ( number not given)

    1,000

    Total

    33,000