He had someone write their names on an official list.
# by their ancestors' houses
Here the word "houses" is a metonym for the families that lived in them. AT: "by their ancestors' families" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds
Possible meanings are 1) these numbers represent the exact amount of soldiers that these commanders led. AT: "commanders of 1,000 soldiers and commanders of 100 soldiers" or 2) the words translated as "thousands" and "hundreds" do not represent exact numbers, but are the names of larger and smaller military divisions. AT: "commanders of large military divisions and commanders of smaller military divisions" See how you translated a similar phrase in [2 Chronicles 1:2](../01/02.md). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
# all of Judah and Benjamin
Here "Judah" and "Benjamin" refer to the people who lived in the wider kingdom of Judah. AT: "all the people of Judah and Benjamin" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# twenty years old and upward
Here numbers that were larger than twenty are spoken of as if they were higher. AT: "20 years old and older" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# found them to be
"learned that there were"
# 300,000 ... 100,000
"three hundred thousand ... one hundred thousand" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
"100 talents of silver." You may convert this to a modern measure. AT: "about thirty-three hundred kilograms of silver" or "about 3,300 kilograms of silver" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bweight]])
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