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All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
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Verse 40. Of captains; a Hebrew idiom, to denote the most excellent. Bible.—Hebrew “chief of the princes.” All mentioned from verse 30, were at the hand of their tribe, in succession, and led their brethren to battle. Calmet.
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