1 Chronicles 27:20 Explained in Context

Read It With

• 1 Chronicles 27:16–24

Read 1 Chronicles 27:20 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 This Verse Appears Here

Within “Tribal leaders are named but the census remains unfinished,” 1 Chronicles 27:20 advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence through the wording “Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: The list deliberately checks administrative counting with promise, incompleteness, and memory of chapter 21's disaster. 1 Chronicles 27:1–15 has just established this prior movement: Twelve named commanders lead courses of 24,000 for successive months, with continuity noted when Asahel's son follows him. Together those details explain why “Tribal leaders are named but the census remains unfinished” belongs here rather than merely following a database record.