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1 Chronicles 27:31 Explained in Context
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Verse 31. 31And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David’s.
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Quick Meaning
Places Jaziz over flocks and summarizes these as stewards of David's property.
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 27:25–27:31
Places Jaziz over flocks and summarizes these as stewards of David's property. Read 1 Chronicles 27:31 within 27:25–27:31. The complete unit records: Royal resources are divided among treasury, field store, farm, vineyard, wine, olive, oil, herd, camel, donkey, and flock managers, including an Ishmaelite and a Hagarite.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The kingdom's wealth is shown as managed labor, ecology, storage, and cross-ethnic expertise rather than an abstract royal possession. In this exact position, the line beginning “And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of…” places Jaziz over flocks and summarizes these as stewards of David's property.
Follow the Context
- Royal resources are divided among treasury, field store, farm, vineyard, wine, olive, oil, herd, camel, donkey, and flock managers, including an Ishmaelite and a Hagarite.
- The kingdom's wealth is shown as managed labor, ecology, storage, and cross-ethnic expertise rather than an abstract royal possession.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of…”
In plain language: Places Jaziz over flocks and summarizes these as stewards of David's property.
The line beginning “And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of…” places Jaziz over flocks and summarizes these as stewards of David's property.
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 stewardship list does not justify royal extraction, ethnic labor stereotypes, environmental exploitation, or erasing unnamed workers.
What Remains True
Places Jaziz over flocks and summarizes these as stewards of David's property. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Leadership is accountable for truth, justice, lives, land, and labor; remembered calling or success does not erase harm or remove correction.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse places Jaziz over flocks and summarizes these as stewards of David's property, keep it inside 27:25–27:31, 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 27:31 places Jaziz over flocks and summarizes these as stewards of David's property. Use 27:25–27:31, paraphrase “And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of…,” 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 27:25–27:31 — Named stewards oversee land, crops, animals, and storesSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
1 Chronicles 27:31 remains within this thought-unit limit: Titles and ethnic labels are clear enough to show diversity, but labor conditions, ownership, dates, yields, and the relationship to temple resources are not stated.
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 27:25–27:31, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 27:25–27:31
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NET Bible Full Notes: 1 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 1 Chronicles 27:25–27:31, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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