Passage

1 Chronicles 11.41

Book: 1 Chronicles · ASV / WEB / KJV / YLT

Immediate context (±2 verses)

ASV

39. Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armorbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, 40. Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

41. Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, 43. Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, (1 Chronicles 11:39-43, ASV)

WEB

39. Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, 40. Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

41. Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, 43. Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, (1 Chronicles 11:39-43, WEB)

KJV

39. Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, 40. Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

41. Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, 43. Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, (1 Chronicles 11:39-43, KJV)

YLT

39. Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, bearer of the weapons of Joab son of Zeruiah, 40. Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

41. Uriah the Hittite, Zabad son of Ahlai,

Adina son of Shiza the Reubenite, head of the Reubenites, and by him thirty, 43. Hanan son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, (1 Chronicles 11:39-43, YLT)

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Setting

Speaker: narrator (the Chronicler), listing David's mighty men
Audience: the restored community in the Persian province of Yehud, rebuilding around temple and priesthood with no king of their own
Location: no single location; the roster follows David's anointing at Hebron and the capture of Jerusalem (11:1-9)
Time period: events of David's reign, c. 1010-970 BC, narrated by a writer working after the return from Babylon, commonly placed c. 400 BC

Theological reading

The roster of David's mighty men follows 2 Samuel 23:8-39 as far as Uriah the Hittite, where the Samuel list ends with "thirty and seven in all" (2 Samuel 23:39). From Zabad the son of Ahlai onward, Chronicles continues with a further run of names (11:41-47) that Samuel does not record.

Chronicles never tells the story of David and Bathsheba, yet it keeps Uriah's name among David's elite. Uriah was a Hittite by descent, and his name, "the LORD is my light", is a Yahwistic name; in 2 Samuel 11:11 he refuses to go home while the ark and the army are in the field. The same roster includes Zelek the Ammonite (11:39) and Ithmah the Moabite (11:46). Men of foreign birth stood among David's closest warriors and were counted as Israel's own, which fits the Old Testament's provision for "the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD" (Isaiah 56:6).

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Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

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