All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
Parallel translations
- WEB All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
- KJV All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
- BSB All of them were Shuhamite clans, and their registration numbered 64,400.
- NASB All the families of the Shuhamites, by those who were numbered of them, were 64,400.
- NLT These were the Shuhamite clans of Dan. Their registered troops numbered 64,400.
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The Danite Shuhamites number 64,400, the second-largest tribe.
Overview
Despite descending from a single clan, Dan totals 64,400, growing from 62,700 at Sinai (Numbers 1:39) and ranking second only to Judah. This abundance from one family magnifies God's power to bring great increase from small beginnings, a pattern echoed in the kingdom Christ would build.
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Cross-references · 2
- Num 2:25–26“On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
- Num 1:38–39Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
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