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1 Chronicles 2:14 Explained in Context
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Verse 14. 14Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “David appears among brothers, sisters, and nephews.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 2:13–17
Read 1 Chronicles 2:14 with 2:13–17. 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: Jesse's sons culminate in David, while Zeruiah and Abigail and their sons are named through David's sisters.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 2:14 depends on 2:13–17; isolating “Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “David appears among brothers, sisters, and nephews.”
Read 1 Chronicles 2:13–17 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 2:13–17 forms the complete movement “David appears among brothers, sisters, and nephews”: Jesse's sons culminate in David, while Zeruiah and Abigail and their sons are named through David's sisters.
Verse 13. 13 And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,
Verse 14. 14 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
Verse 15. 15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:
Verse 16. 16 Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
Verse 17. 17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
Continue in Context
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Read 1 Chronicles 2:13–17 — David appears among brothers, sisters, and nephewsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
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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 2:13–17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
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