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1 Chronicles 25:21 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 21. 21The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Teacher and learner share twenty-four musical lots.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 25:8–31
Read 1 Chronicles 25:21 with 25:8–31. 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: Small and great, teacher and student cast lots, and twenty-four groups of twelve are assigned in order.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 25:21 depends on 25:8–31; isolating “The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Teacher and learner share twenty-four musical lots.”
Read 1 Chronicles 25:8–31 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 25:8–31 forms the complete movement “Teacher and learner share twenty-four musical lots”: Small and great, teacher and student cast lots, and twenty-four groups of twelve are assigned in order.
Verse 8. 8 And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
Verse 9. 9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:
Verse 10. 10 The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 11. 11 The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 12. 12 The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 13. 13 The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 14. 14 The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 15. 15 The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 16. 16 The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 17. 17 The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 18. 18 The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 19. 19 The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 20. 20 The thirteenth to Shubael, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 21. 21 The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 22. 22 The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 23. 23 The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 24. 24 The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 25. 25 The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 26. 26 The nineteenth to Mallothi, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 27. 27 The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 28. 28 The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 29. 29 The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 30. 30 The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Verse 31. 31 The four and twentieth to Romamti-ezer, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve.
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 25:8–31, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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