1-Chronicles - 5:15



15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers' houses.

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Chronicles 5:15.

Differing Translations

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Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.
And their brethren the sons of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house in their families,
Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was chief of their fathers' house.
Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, is head of the house of their fathers;
Ahi, the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, head of their families.
along with their brothers, the sons of Abdiel, the son of Guni, the leader of the house, in their families,

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers. Which Ahi was a principal man in the families the seven above men belonged to; besides them, or those three, were everyone of them heads of families.

The head of their fathers'-houses (i.e., of those mentioned in 1-Chronicles 5:13) as Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, who is conjectured to have lived in the time of King Jotham of Judah, or of Jeroboam II of Israel, when, according to 1-Chronicles 5:17, genealogical registers of the Gadites were made up.

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