📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 4:27
What does 1 Chronicles 4:27 mean?
"Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family did not multiply like the children of Judah."
— 1 Chronicles 4:27 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son.
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family did not multiply like the children of Judah.
They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual,
at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad,
at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag,
Explanation
First Chronicles 4:27 states a simple genealogical fact: a man named Shimei, listed among the descendants of Simeon, fathered an unusually large family of twenty-two children, sixteen sons and six daughters. The verse then makes a comparative observation—unlike Shimei, his brothers (that
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