1-Chronicles - 26:5



5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Chronicles 26:5.

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Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.
Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Phollathi the eighth: for the Lord had blessed him.

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For God blessed him - "That is, Obed-edom; because of the ark of the Lord which was in his house; and to him was given the honor that he should see his children and grand-children, even fourscore and two, masters of the Levites." - T. In 1-Chronicles 26:8, we have only sixty-two mentioned.

Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God (b) blessed him.
(b) In giving him many children.

God blessed him--that is, Obed-edom. The occasion of the blessing was his faithful custody of the ark (2-Samuel 6:11-12). The nature of the blessing (Psalm 127:5) consisted in the great increase of progeny by which his house was distinguished; seventy-two descendants are reckoned.

Blessed him - With a numerous posterity and other blessings, for his respect and affection to the ark. The increase and building up of families, is owing to the Divine blessing. And a great blessing it is to have many children, when they are like these, eminent in the service of God.

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