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1 Chronicles 19:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.
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Role in This Section
Places Ammonites at the city gate and allied kings in the field.
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 19:6–19:15
Places Ammonites at the city gate and allied kings in the field. Read 1 Chronicles 19:9 within 19:6–19:15. The complete unit records: Ammon hires Aramean chariots, Joab divides Israel's troops with Abishai, pledges mutual aid, and both enemy groups retreat.
Why It Needs Context
Places Ammonites at the city gate and allied kings in the field. Its responsible force depends on 19:6–19:15; isolated from “Hired forces create a two-front battle,” the supporting action, name, number, object, quotation, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read 1 Chronicles 19:6–19:15 — Hired forces create a two-front battleSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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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 19:6–19:15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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 19:6–19:15
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