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1 Chronicles 14:3 Explained in Context
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Verse 3. 3And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Tyrian builders and David's growing household.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 14:1–7
Read 1 Chronicles 14:3 with 14:1–7. 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: Hiram sends cedar and craftspeople for David's house, David interprets his kingship as established for Israel, and more wives and children are listed.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Tyrian builders and David's growing household,” 1 Chronicles 14:3 advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence through the wording “And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: The chapter places international skill, royal consolidation, and family expansion before renewed Philistine threat. 1 Chronicles 13:9–14 has just established this prior movement: Uzza steadies the ark, is struck dead, David becomes angry and afraid, abandons the move, and Obed-edom's household is blessed for three months. Together those details explain why “Tyrian builders and David's growing household” belongs here rather than merely following a database record.
Read 1 Chronicles 14:1–7 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 14:1–7 forms the complete movement “Tyrian builders and David's growing household”: Hiram sends cedar and craftspeople for David's house, David interprets his kingship as established for Israel, and more wives and children are listed.
Verse 1. 1 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
Verse 2. 2 And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel.
Verse 3. 3 And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
Verse 4. 4 Now these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
Verse 5. 5 And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,
Verse 6. 6 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
Verse 7. 7 And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.
What Remains True
Leadership is accountable for truth, justice, lives, land, and labor; remembered calling or success does not erase harm or remove correction. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: Hiram sends cedar and craftspeople for David's house, David interprets his kingship as established for Israel, and more wives and children are listed. In 1 Chronicles 14:3, the concrete line “And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.” In leadership decisions, publish the evidence, hear affected people, separate office from immunity, and build consent, review, correction, and remedy into the work. This response follows from the unit's own movement: Hiram sends cedar and craftspeople for David's house, David interprets his kingship as established for Israel, and more wives and children are listed.
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 14:1–7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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NET Bible Full Notes: 1 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
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Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 1 Chronicles 14:1–7, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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