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1 Chronicles 14:5 Explained in Context
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Verse 5. 5And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet.” 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 14:5 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 It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 14:5 depends on 14:1–7; isolating “And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Tyrian builders and David's growing household.”
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.
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Read 1 Chronicles 14:1–7 — Tyrian builders and David's growing householdSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 1 Chronicles 14:1–7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
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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 14:1–7
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