1 Chronicles 27:19 Explained in Context

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Verse 19. Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:

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Role in This Section

This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Tribal leaders are named but the census remains unfinished.”

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1 Chronicles 27:16–24

Read 1 Chronicles 27:19 with 27:16–24. 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: Leaders represent tribes, David excludes those under twenty because of the star promise, and Joab's incomplete numbering is recalled as bringing wrath and being omitted from royal accounts.

Why It Needs Context

1 Chronicles 27:19 depends on 27:16–24; isolating “Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Tribal leaders are named but the census remains unfinished.”

Read 1 Chronicles 27:16–24 together

Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 27:16–24 forms the complete movement “Tribal leaders are named but the census remains unfinished”: Leaders represent tribes, David excludes those under twenty because of the star promise, and Joab's incomplete numbering is recalled as bringing wrath and being omitted from royal accounts.

Verse 16. Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:

Verse 17. Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok:

Verse 18. Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:

Verse 19. Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:

Verse 20. Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:

Verse 21. Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:

Verse 22. Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.

Verse 23. But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

Verse 24. Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

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