John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 7:40
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 ... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 7:20-40
We have here an account, I. Of the tribe of Ephraim. Great things we read of that tribe when it came to maturity. Here we have an account of the disasters of its infancy, while it was in Egypt as it should seem; for Ephraim himself was alive when those things were done, which yet is hard to imagine if it were, as is here computed, seven generations off. Therefore I am apt to think that either it was another Ephraim or that those who were slain were the immediate sons of that Ephraim that was... read more