📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 12:10
What does 1 Chronicles 12:10 mean?
"Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,"
— 1 Chronicles 12:10 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:
Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
Jeremiah the tenth, and Machbannai the eleventh.
Explanation
1 Chronicles 12:10 is a simple, almost bare-bones entry in a longer list of names. It reads plainly: "Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth." There is no action, no dialogue, no teaching attached to it—just the identification of two men and their rank in a numbered sequence. To understand its meaning, we have to look at the surrounding context rather than the verse in isolation.
This verse falls within 1 Chronicles 12, a chapter that catalogs the mighty warriors who defected from Saul's camp and joined David while he was still a fugitive, hiding out at Ziklag before he became king. The chapter lists warriors from the tribe of Benjamin (Saul's own tribe) and later from Gad, Manasseh, and other tribes, numbering them and sometimes describing their skills—men who could use both hands to sling stones and shoot arrows, or who were "swift as gazelles upon the mountains." Mishmannah and Jeremiah appear among a group of Gadite warriors (verses 8-15), described collectively as mighty men of valor, trained for war, who could handle shield and spear
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