All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house,.... Principal men in their tribe, and respective families:choice and mighty men of valour; these were some selected from others, being eminent for their courage and valour:chief of the princes; or chief princes; the Vulgate Latin version is, dukes of dukes, they were heads of their fathers' families:[and] the number throughout the genealogy that were apt to war, and to battle, [was] twenty and six thousand [men]; that is, in the days of David, 1Ch 7:4, this was the number, not of their chief men, nor of all the people in the tribe, but of their militia.
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1 Chronicles 7:40
1 Chronicles 7:40
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