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1 Chronicles 1:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Japheth and Ham's lines widen the human horizon.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 1:5–16
Read 1 Chronicles 1:9 with 1:5–16. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the relationships and outcome summarized here: The list names peoples traced through Japheth and Ham, including brief notices about Nimrod and the Philistines.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 1:9 depends on 1:5–16; isolating “And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of…” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Japheth and Ham's lines widen the human horizon.”
Read 1 Chronicles 1:5–16 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 1:5–16 forms the complete movement “Japheth and Ham's lines widen the human horizon”: The list names peoples traced through Japheth and Ham, including brief notices about Nimrod and the Philistines.
Verse 5. 5 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Verse 6. 6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Verse 7. 7 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Verse 8. 8 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Verse 9. 9 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
Verse 10. 10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
Verse 11. 11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
Verse 12. 12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.
Verse 13. 13 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
Verse 14. 14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
Verse 15. 15 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Verse 16. 16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 1:5–16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
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Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 1:5–16
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