children = sons.

kindness = lovingkindness, or grace. Compare 2 Samuel 9:1 .
as = according as.

search = explore.
the city . Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "the land". Compare 1 Chronicles 19:3 .

men . Heb 'enosh. App-14 .

men . Hebrew. ish , App-14 .
Ish-tob = men of Tob.

play the men = Be strong and let us put forth our strength. Hebrew. hozak.
God . Hebrew. Elohim . App-4 .
the LORD . Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4 .

river : i.e. the Euphrates.
Shobach . Another name, Shophach (1 Chronicles 19:16 ).

seven hundred. = 1Ch 19:187 ; 1 Chronicles 19 . But Hebrew j = 7 and j = 7,000, probably a scribe's
infirmity . Compare 2 Samuel 8:4 and 1 Chronicles 18:4 .