1 Chronicles 7:11
All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle. All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
The verse stands within the long lists of names filling the first eight chapters of 1 Chronicles. As part of that genealogical record it preserves the identity and integrity of Israel's tribes. In particular it numbers the sons of Jediael as seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
Such a verse is not equally interesting and valuable to all persons and under all circumstances, and it is seldom read in family worship or private devotion. Yet this shows that God made the Bible not for one class only but for all classes and tastes, putting deep things in it to interest scholars while giving plain manna to the illiterate. It records the origin and distribution of races because God knew men would arise who would study ethnology. God scattered pearls of spiritual truth along the way by which He leads scientists, so that many seeking only human knowledge find that which is divine.