1 Chronicles 12:32 - The Pulpit Commentary

1 Chronicles 12:32 -

Had understanding of the times ( 2 Chronicles 2:12 ; Esther 1:13 ; Job 24:1 ). Compare Tacitus, "gnarus temporum" ('Agricola,' §6). This verse does not tell the number of the "children," but only of the "heads" of Issachar . It is possible that the number has slipped out. The description of the characteristics of Issachar here seems an advance upon that of Genesis 49:14 , Genesis 49:15 .

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

The Pulpit Commentary is a homiletic commentary on the Bible created during the nineteenth century under the direction of Rev. Joseph S. Exell and Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. It consists of 23 volumes with 22,000 pages and 95,000 entries, and was written over a 30-year period with 100 contributors.... Show more

1 Chronicles 12:32 -

1 Chronicles 12:32 -

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