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1 Crônicas 27

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1Estes são os filhos de Israel segundo o seu numero, os chefes dos paes, e os capitães dos milhares e das centenas, com os seus officiaes, que serviam ao rei em todos os negocios das turmas entrando e saindo de mez em mez, em todos os mezes do anno: cada turma de vinte e quatro mil.

2Sobre a primeira turma do mez primeiro estava Jasobeam, filho de Zabdiel: e em sua turma havia vinte e quatro mil.

3Era este dos filhos de Phares, chefe de todos os capitães dos exercitos, para o primeiro mez.

4E sobre a turma do segundo mez era Dodai, o ahohita, com a sua turma, cujo chefe era Mikloth: tambem em sua turma havia vinte e quatro mil.

5O terceiro capitão do exercito do terceiro mez era Benaias, filho de Joiada, official maior e chefe: tambem em sua turma havia vinte e quatro mil.

6Era este Benaias um varão entre os trinta, e sobre os trinta: e sobre a sua turma estava Ammizabad, seu filho.

7O quarto do quarto mez Asael, irmão de Joab, e depois d'elle Zebadias, seu filho: tambem em sua turma havia vinte e quatro mil.

8O quinto do quinto mez o maioral Samhuth, o israhita: tambem em sua turma havia vinte e quatro mil.

9O sexto do sexto mez Ira, filho de Ikkes, o tekoita: tambem em sua turma havia vinte e quatro mil.

10O setimo do setimo mez Heles, o pelonita, dos filhos de Ephraim: tambem em sua turma havia vinte e quatro mil.

11O oitavo do oitavo mez Sibbechai, o husathita, dos zarithas: tambem em sua turma havia vinte e quatro mil.

12O nono do nono mez Abiezer, o anathotita, dos benjaminitas: tambem em sua turma havia vinte e quatro mil.

13O decimo do decimo mez Maharai, o netophatita, dos zarithas: tambem em sua turma havia vinte e quatro mil.

14O undecimo do undecimo mez Benaia, o pirathonita, dos filhos de Ephraim: tambem em sua turma havia vinte e quatro mil.

15O duodecimo do duodecimo mez Heldia, o nethophatita, de Othniel: tambem em sua turma havia vinte e quatro mil.

16Porém sobre as tribus de Israel eram estes: sobre os rubenitas era chefe Eliezer, filho de Zichri; sobre os simeonitas Sephatias, filho de Maaca;

17Sobre os levitas Hasabias, filho de Kemuel; sobre os aaronitas Zadok;

18Sobre Judah, Elihu, dos irmãos de David; sobre Issacar, Omri, filho de Michael;

19Sobre Zebulon, Irmaias, filho de Obadias; sobre Naphtali, Jerimoth, filho de Azriel;

20Sobre os filhos de Ephraim, Hoseas, filho de Azazias; sobre a meia tribu de Manasseh Joel, filho de Pedaias;

21Sobre a outra meia tribu de Manasseh em Gilead, Iddo, filho de Zacharias; sobre Benjamin, Jaasiel, filho de Abner;

22Sobre Dan, Azarel, filho de Jeroham: estes eram os capitães das tribus d'Israel.

23Não tomou porém David o numero dos de vinte annos e d'ahi para baixo, porquanto o Senhor tinha dito que havia de multiplicar a Israel como as estrellas do céu.

24Joab, filho de Zeruia, tinha começado a numeral-os, porém não acabou; porquanto viera por isso grande ira sobre Israel: pelo que o numero se não poz na conta das chronicas do rei David.

25E sobre os thesouros do rei estava Azmaveth, filho de Adiel; e sobre os thesouros da terra, das cidades, e das aldeias, e das torres, Jonathan, filho de Uzias.

26E sobre os que faziam a obra do campo, na lavoura da terra, Ezri, filho de Chelub.

27E sobre as vinhas Simei, o ramathita: porém sobre o que das vides entrava nos thesouros do vinho Zabdi, o siphmita.

28E sobre os olivaes e figueiras bravas que havia nas campinas, Baal Hanan, o gederita: porém Joás sobre os thesouros do azeite.

29E sobre os gados que pasciam em Saron, Sitrai, o saronita: porém sobre os gados dos valles, Saphat, filho de Adlai.

30E sobre os camelos, Obil, o ishmaelita: e sobre as jumentas, Jehdias, o meronothita.

31E sobre o gado miudo, Jaziz, o hagarita: todos estes eram maioraes da fazenda que tinha o rei David.

32E Jonathan, tio de David, era do conselho, homem entendido, e tambem escriba: e Jehiel, filho de Hacmoni, estava com os filhos do rei.

33E Achitophel era do conselho do rei: e Husai, o archita, amigo do rei.

34E depois de Achitophel, Joiada, filho de Benaias, e Abiathar; porém Joab era chefe do exercito do rei.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

The military commanders responsible for monthly divisions of 24,000 soldiers each are listed, along with the leaders of each of the twelve tribes of Israel, and the officials in charge of King David's personal properties and wealth.

Explanation

This chapter reveals an extremely organized military and administrative structure: instead of maintaining a huge, costly standing army, David organizes a rotating system in which different groups of 24,000 men served actively for only one month a year, allowing most of the time these people to continue working their own land and caring for their own families. The detailed list of officials for vineyards, olive groves, herds, and camels shows the extent of David's agricultural wealth and the need for specialized professional management for each type of resource. This level of administrative organization reflects the maturity of a kingdom that was no longer merely a tribal confederation, but a fully structured state.

Fun facts

  • The monthly military rotation system, with 288,000 soldiers in total divided into twelve groups of 24,000, allowed Israel to have access to a considerable military force without needing to maintain a full-time professional standing army.
  • The text explicitly mentions that the census of chapter 21 was never included in the kingdom's official chronicles, because of the wrath that episode brought upon Israel — showing how certain numbers were deliberately left out of the records for spiritual reasons.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. 1 Crônicas 27:1The kingdom had a military rotation system: twenty-four thousand men a month, one month for each group, across the whole year. It worked something like a national reserve service, without requiring anyone to stay mobilized year-round.
  2. 1 Crônicas 27:2Jashobeam commands the first monthly division, the same warrior who killed three hundred men single-handedly back in chapter 11 — twenty-four thousand soldiers under his command for just the first month of the year.
  3. 1 Crônicas 27:3This Jashobeam comes from the line of Perez, within the tribe of Judah, and is described as chief of all the army’s captains for this first month of service.
  4. 1 Crônicas 27:4In the second month Dodai the Ahohite takes over, with Mikloth serving as something like his right hand within the same division of twenty-four thousand men.
  5. 1 Crônicas 27:5In the third month it is the turn of Benaiah, son of Jehoiada — the same hero who killed a lion in the snow and an Egyptian giant, now leading a whole month of military service.
  6. 1 Crônicas 27:6The text recalls that this Benaiah was one of the thirty elite warriors and even led that group — and the one who takes direct command of his division is his own son, Ammizabad.
  7. 1 Crônicas 27:7In the fourth month Asahel, Joab’s brother, leads — whose death, told in another book, explains why it is his son Zebadiah who ends up taking over command afterward.
  8. 1 Crônicas 27:8In the fifth month, the commander is Shamhuth the Izrahite — one more name that appears only here within this monthly military organization.
  9. 1 Crônicas 27:9In the sixth month Ira, son of Ikkesh, from Tekoa, takes over — the same warrior already listed among David’s thirty mighty men in chapter 11.
  10. 1 Crônicas 27:10In the seventh month Helez the Pelonite, of the tribe of Ephraim, leads — one more of the thirty warriors put to use again in this military rotation system.
  11. 1 Crônicas 27:11In the eighth month, the commander is Sibbecai, the same warrior who killed one of the giant descendants of Rapha back in chapter 20.
  12. 1 Crônicas 27:12In the ninth month Abiezer of Anathoth takes over — from the same Benjamite clan that, generations later, will produce the judge Gideon.
  13. 1 Crônicas 27:13In the tenth month Maharai of Netophah leads — another town that comes up repeatedly as the birthplace of David’s mighty warriors.
  14. 1 Crônicas 27:14In the eleventh month, the commander is Benaiah of Pirathon, of the tribe of Ephraim — a namesake of the famous lion-killer, but a different man.
  15. 1 Crônicas 27:15In the twelfth and final month Heldai of Netophah, a descendant of Othniel, takes over — the same Othniel who was Israel’s first judge after Joshua.
  16. 1 Crônicas 27:16Besides the army, David sets up a chief for every tribe: Eliezer for the Reubenites, Shephatiah for the Simeonites — a civil structure running parallel to the military one.
  17. 1 Crônicas 27:17Hashabiah leads the Levites, and Zadok, the priest already well known from the book, specifically leads the descendants of Aaron.
  18. 1 Crônicas 27:18Over Judah stands Elihu, one of David’s own brothers — leadership of the king’s own tribe stays within the family, though not with the king himself; over Issachar stands Omri.
  19. 1 Crônicas 27:19Ishmaiah leads Zebulun, and Jerimoth leads Naphtali — the scheme of one chief per tribe keeps covering the whole territory of Israel.
  20. 1 Crônicas 27:20Hoshea leads the Ephraimites, and Joel leads the western half of the tribe of Manasseh — each great tribal group gets its own civil leadership.
  21. 1 Crônicas 27:21Iddo leads the other half of Manasseh, on the east side of the Jordan, in Gilead; and over Benjamin stands Jaasiel, son of Abner — the same Abner who had been Saul’s own general, showing how the old rival house became integrated into David’s government.
  22. 1 Crônicas 27:22Azareel closes the list, leading the tribe of Dan — a final summary confirms that these were the captains appointed over the tribes of Israel.
  23. 1 Crônicas 27:23David avoids counting those under twenty years old, and the text recalls that Joab never finished that earlier census because of the wrath that fell on Israel — a direct callback to the episode in chapter 21, as if the chronicler wanted to make clear that the lesson of that mistake was not forgotten.
  24. 1 Crônicas 27:24The text returns to the episode in chapter 21: Joab did start that count of the people, but did not finish it because of the wrath that fell on Israel — and so that number never made it into the official records of David’s reign.
  25. 1 Crônicas 27:25Azmaveth cares for the king’s personal treasures, while Jehonathan cares for the treasures scattered across the cities, villages, and towers — a clear separation between the crown’s private property and public property.
  26. 1 Crônicas 27:26Ezri is put in charge of the field workers, overseeing the tilling of the ground — the kingdom’s farming economy also needed someone directly responsible.
  27. 1 Crônicas 27:27Shimei cares for the vineyards themselves, while Zabdi specifically cares for what goes into the wine cellars — two different posts for two different stages of production.
  28. 1 Crônicas 27:28Baal-hanan cares for the olive groves and fig trees, while Joash cares only for the oil stores — the same logic of separating production and storage now applied to olive oil.
  29. 1 Crônicas 27:29Shitrai cares for the herds grazing in Sharon, and Shaphat cares for the herds scattered through the valleys — management of the pasturelands split up by region.
  30. 1 Crônicas 27:30Obil, an Ishmaelite, cares for the king’s camels — a foreigner chosen precisely because his people were experts with this kind of desert animal; Jehdeiah cares for the donkeys.
  31. 1 Crônicas 27:31Jaziz, a Hagerite, cares for the small livestock — another foreigner recruited for specific expertise, closing out the list of managers over King David’s vast rural estate.
  32. 1 Crônicas 27:32Jonathan, David’s uncle, serves as counselor and scribe, a man of understanding; Jehiel is directly in charge of raising and keeping company with the king’s sons.
  33. 1 Crônicas 27:33Ahithophel is the king’s chief counselor — the same man whose advice, told in another book, will prove decisive, and tragic, during Absalom’s rebellion; Hushai is described simply as ‘the king’s companion,’ a title of personal trust.
  34. 1 Crônicas 27:34After Ahithophel, Jehoiada and Abiathar take over as counselors, but the one who stays in command of the army, from beginning to end of the book, is Joab — closing out the complete organizational chart of David’s reign.

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