Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - 1 Chronicles 27:30 - 27:30

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - 1 Chronicles 27:30 - 27:30


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The name of the Ishmaelite who was set over the camels, Obil (אֹובִיל), reminds us of the Arab. abila, multos possedit vel acquisivit camelos. הַמֵּרֹנֹמִי, he of Meronoth (1Ch 27:30 and Neh 3:17). The situation of this place is unknown. According to Neh 3:7, it is perhaps to be sought in the neighbourhood of Mizpah. Over the smaller cattle (sheep and goats) Jaziz the Hagarite, of the people Hagar (cf. 1Ch 5:10), was set. The oversight, consequently, of the camels and sheep was committed to a Hagarite and an Ishmaelite, probably because they pastured in the neighbourhood where the Ishmaelites and Hagarites had nomadized from early times, they having been brought under the dominion of Israel by David. The total number of these officials amounted to twelve, of whom we may conjecture that the ten overseers over the agricultural and cattle-breeding affairs of the king had to deliver over the annual proceeds of the property committed to them to the chief manager of the treasures in the field, in the cities, and villages, and towns.