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1 Chronicles 12:37 Explained in Context

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Verse 37. And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.

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Counts Transjordanian troops with varied weapons.

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  • 1 Chronicles 12:23–12:37

Counts Transjordanian troops with varied weapons. Read 1 Chronicles 12:37 within 12:23–12:37. The complete unit records: Large contingents from Judah, Simeon, Levi, Benjamin, northern tribes, and Transjordan assemble to transfer Saul's kingdom to David.

Why It Needs Context

Counts Transjordanian troops with varied weapons. Its responsible force depends on 12:23–12:37; isolated from “Every tribal region contributes to the Hebron force,” the supporting action, name, number, object, quotation, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.

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Read 1 Chronicles 12:23–12:37 — Every tribal region contributes to the Hebron force
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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.

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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 12:23–12:37, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Open Scriptures, release 2.2

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 12:23–12:37

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