1 Chronicles 12:14

14 These Gadites were army commanders; the least was a match for a hundred, and the greatest for a thousand.

1 Chronicles 12:14 in Other Translations

14 These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.

14 These Gadites were officers of the army; the least was a match for a hundred men and the greatest for a thousand.

14 These warriors from Gad were army commanders. The weakest among them could take on a hundred regular troops, and the strongest could take on a thousand!

14 These Gadites were the cream of the crop - any one of them was worth a hundred lesser men, and the best of them were worth a thousand.

14 These Gadites were army commanders; the least of them was a match for a hundred, and the greatest of them for a thousand.

1 Chronicles 12:14 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 12:14

These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host
Of the militia in their own country, and of the men they brought with them; or they were such afterwards in David's army:

one of the least was over one hundred, and the greatest over thousand;
not that they were so when they came, or brought over such a number of men with them under their command; but they were promoted by David, when he came to the throne, to be centurions and chiliarchs; according to Jarchi, the sense is, that the least of them would put to flight and pursue one hundred, and the greatest of them 1000, and so fulfilled the passage in ( Leviticus 26:8 ) .

1 Chronicles 12:14 In-Context

12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,

13 Jeremiah the tenth and Makbannai the eleventh.

14 These Gadites were army commanders; the least was a match for a hundred, and the greatest for a thousand.

15 It was they who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight everyone living in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

16 Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.

Cross References

• 1. S Leviticus 26:8
• 2. S Deuteronomy 32:30