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1 Chronicles 22:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Solomon receives law-shaped courage and immense resources.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 22:11–16
Read 1 Chronicles 22:15 with 22:11–16. 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: David blesses Solomon, asks for wisdom to govern and keep Torah, cites vast gold, silver, metal, timber, stone, and skilled workers, and commands action.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 22:15 depends on 22:11–16; isolating “Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner…” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Solomon receives law-shaped courage and immense resources.”
Read 1 Chronicles 22:11–16 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 22:11–16 forms the complete movement “Solomon receives law-shaped courage and immense resources”: David blesses Solomon, asks for wisdom to govern and keep Torah, cites vast gold, silver, metal, timber, stone, and skilled workers, and commands action.
Verse 11. 11 Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.
Verse 12. 12 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.
Verse 13. 13 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.
Verse 14. 14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
Verse 15. 15 Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
Verse 16. 16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
Continue in Context
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Read 1 Chronicles 22:11–16 — Solomon receives law-shaped courage and immense resourcesSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 22:11–16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
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