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1 Chronicles 11:2 Explained in Context
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Verse 2. 2And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “All Israel covenants with David at Hebron.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 11:1–3
Read 1 Chronicles 11:2 with 11:1–3. 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: Israel's representatives claim kinship, remember David's prior leadership, cite the divine shepherd-ruler word, covenant with him, and anoint him.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 11:2 depends on 11:1–3; isolating “And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest…” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “All Israel covenants with David at Hebron.”
Read 1 Chronicles 11:1–3 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 11:1–3 forms the complete movement “All Israel covenants with David at Hebron”: Israel's representatives claim kinship, remember David's prior leadership, cite the divine shepherd-ruler word, covenant with him, and anoint him.
Verse 1. 1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
Verse 2. 2 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
Verse 3. 3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
Continue in Context
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 1 Chronicles 11:1–3, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
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Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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 11:1–3
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