1 Chronicles 7:40

All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house ,.... Principal men in their tribe, and respective families:

choice and mighty men of valour ; these were some selected from others, being eminent for their courage and valour:

chief of the princes ; or chief princes; the Vulgate Latin version is, dukes of dukes, they were heads of their fathers' families:

and the number throughout the genealogy that were apt to war, and to battle, was twenty and six thousand men ; that is, in the days of David, 1 Chronicles 7:4 , this was the number, not of their chief men, nor of all the people in the tribe, but of their militia.