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1 Chronicles 2:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
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Role in This Section
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Israel's twelve sons open the tribal account.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 2:1–2
Read 1 Chronicles 2:2 with 2:1–2. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the relationships and outcome summarized here: The twelve sons of Israel are named in a deliberate order.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 2:2 depends on 2:1–2; isolating “Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Israel's twelve sons open the tribal account.”
Read 1 Chronicles 2:1–2 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2 forms the complete movement “Israel's twelve sons open the tribal account”: The twelve sons of Israel are named in a deliberate order.
Verse 1. 1 These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
Verse 2. 2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read 1 Chronicles 2:1–2 — Israel's twelve sons open the tribal accountSources used for this context pointer
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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.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 1 Chronicles 2:1–2, 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 2:1–2
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