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1 Chronicles 2:6 Explained in Context
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Verse 6. 6And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Judah's broken line reaches Jesse.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 2:3–12
Read 1 Chronicles 2:6 with 2:3–12. 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: Judah's sons include a Canaanite mother, Er's evil, Tamar's Perez and Zerah, Achar's remembered offense, and the line through Boaz and Obed to Jesse.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Judah's broken line reaches Jesse,” 1 Chronicles 2:6 advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence through the wording “And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: Judah's line reaches Jesse through wrongdoing, Tamar, Perez, Rahab's and Ruth's remembered horizon, and preserved continuity rather than a pure or idealized pedigree.
Read 1 Chronicles 2:3–12 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 2:3–12 forms the complete movement “Judah's broken line reaches Jesse”: Judah's sons include a Canaanite mother, Er's evil, Tamar's Perez and Zerah, Achar's remembered offense, and the line through Boaz and Obed to Jesse.
Verse 3. 3 The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.
Verse 4. 4 And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
Verse 5. 5 The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.
Verse 6. 6 And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
Verse 7. 7 And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
Verse 8. 8 And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.
Verse 9. 9 The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
Verse 10. 10 And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
Verse 11. 11 And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,
Verse 12. 12 And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,
What Remains True
Communal memory must preserve real people, households, disruptions, and belonging without turning ancestry into superiority, spiritual rank, or entitlement. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: Judah's sons include a Canaanite mother, Er's evil, Tamar's Perez and Zerah, Achar's remembered offense, and the line through Boaz and Obed to Jesse. In 1 Chronicles 2:6, the concrete line “And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in…” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in….” When a community tells its story, document people accurately, notice women and outsiders as persons, state gaps honestly, and reject ancestry tests for dignity, faith, citizenship, land, or leadership. This response follows from the unit's own movement: Judah's sons include a Canaanite mother, Er's evil, Tamar's Perez and Zerah, Achar's remembered offense, and the line through Boaz and Obed to Jesse.
Continue in Context
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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 2:3–12, 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 2:3–12
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NET Bible Full Notes: 1 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
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Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 1 Chronicles 2:3–12, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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