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1 Chronicles 12:10 Explained in Context
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Verse 10. 10Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Gadites cross the flooded Jordan to the wilderness hold.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 12:8–15
Read 1 Chronicles 12:10 with 12:8–15. 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: Eleven Gadite officers are praised for battlefield capacity and a dangerous first-month river crossing.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 12:10 depends on 12:8–15; isolating “Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Gadites cross the flooded Jordan to the wilderness hold.”
Read 1 Chronicles 12:8–15 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 12:8–15 forms the complete movement “Gadites cross the flooded Jordan to the wilderness hold”: Eleven Gadite officers are praised for battlefield capacity and a dangerous first-month river crossing.
Verse 8. 8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
Verse 9. 9 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
Verse 10. 10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
Verse 11. 11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
Verse 12. 12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
Verse 13. 13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
Verse 14. 14 These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.
Verse 15. 15 These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
Continue in Context
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 12:8–15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
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