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1 Chronicles 16:39 Explained in Context

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Verse 39. And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,

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Role in This Section

Places Zadok and priests at Gibeon's tabernacle.

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  • 1 Chronicles 16:37–16:43

Places Zadok and priests at Gibeon's tabernacle. Read 1 Chronicles 16:39 within 16:37–16:43. The complete unit records: Asaph's group remains before the ark, while Zadok, priests, Heman, and Jeduthun serve the Mosaic altar at Gibeon; people return home and David blesses his household.

Why It Needs Context

Places Zadok and priests at Gibeon's tabernacle. Its responsible force depends on 16:37–16:43; isolated from “Ark and Gibeon receive coordinated daily service,” the supporting action, name, number, object, quotation, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.

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Read 1 Chronicles 16:37–16:43 — Ark and Gibeon receive coordinated daily service
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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 16:37–16:43, 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 16:37–16:43

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