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1 Chronicles 5:23 Explained in Context
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Verse 23. 23And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
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Role in This Section
This verse opens the thought unit and establishes its first name, action, or speech: “And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Half-Manasseh's growth ends in Assyrian deportation.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 5:23–26
Read 1 Chronicles 5:23 with 5:23–26. The selected wording supplies one opening in the thought unit and establishes its first name, action, or speech; the surrounding verses supply the relationships and outcome summarized here: Half-Manasseh's chiefs and territory are named, then Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh are judged for other worship and deported by Assyria.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 5:23 depends on 5:23–26; isolating “And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto…” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Half-Manasseh's growth ends in Assyrian deportation.”
Read 1 Chronicles 5:23–26 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 5:23–26 forms the complete movement “Half-Manasseh's growth ends in Assyrian deportation”: Half-Manasseh's chiefs and territory are named, then Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh are judged for other worship and deported by Assyria.
Verse 23. 23 And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
Verse 24. 24 And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
Verse 25. 25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
Verse 26. 26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 5:23–26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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