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1 Chronicles 2:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
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Quick Meaning
Identifies Achar by his communal offense rather than hiding genealogical failure.
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 2:3–2:12
Identifies Achar by his communal offense rather than hiding genealogical failure. Read 1 Chronicles 2:7 within 2:3–2:12. The complete unit records: 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
The Davidic line is introduced through foreign kinship, wrongdoing, judgment, and preserved continuity rather than an idealized pure pedigree. In this exact position, the line beginning “And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the…” identifies Achar by his communal offense rather than hiding genealogical failure.
Follow the Context
- 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.
- The Davidic line is introduced through foreign kinship, wrongdoing, judgment, and preserved continuity rather than an idealized pure pedigree.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the…”
In plain language: Identifies Achar by his communal offense rather than hiding genealogical failure.
The line beginning “And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the…” identifies Achar by his communal offense rather than hiding genealogical failure.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The genealogy does not shame Tamar or the unnamed Canaanite woman, create hereditary guilt, or make Judahite descent moral superiority.
What Remains True
Identifies Achar by his communal offense rather than hiding genealogical failure. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Communal memory must preserve real people, households, disruptions, and belonging without turning ancestry into superiority, spiritual rank, or entitlement.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse identifies Achar by his communal offense rather than hiding genealogical failure, keep it inside 2:3–2:12, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 1 Chronicles 2:7 identifies Achar by his communal offense rather than hiding genealogical failure. Use 2:3–2:12, paraphrase “And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Chronicles 2:3–2:12 — Judah's broken line reaches JesseSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
1 Chronicles 2:7 remains within this thought-unit limit: Chronicles condenses Genesis, Joshua, and Ruth traditions and uses Achar where Joshua has Achan; names, identifications, and the exact source form remain textual questions.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 2:3–2:12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 2:3–2:12
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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 2:3–2:12, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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