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1 Chronicles 7:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
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Quick Meaning
This verse opens the thought unit and establishes its first name, action, or speech: “Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Issachar's households are counted for war.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 7:1–5
Read 1 Chronicles 7:1 with 7:1–5. 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: Tola's descendants, chiefs, many wives and sons, and large military totals are recorded.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Issachar's households are counted for war,” 1 Chronicles 7:1 opens the thought unit and establishes its first name, action, or speech through the wording “Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: The northern tribal lists begin by joining genealogy to Davidic-era mobilization. 1 Chronicles 6:54–81 has just established this prior movement: Aaronic, Kohathite, Gershonite, and Merarite families receive named towns and pasturelands from multiple tribes, including refuge cities. Together those details explain why “Issachar's households are counted for war” belongs here rather than merely following a database record.
Read 1 Chronicles 7:1–5 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 7:1–5 forms the complete movement “Issachar's households are counted for war”: Tola's descendants, chiefs, many wives and sons, and large military totals are recorded.
Verse 1. 1 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
Verse 2. 2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
Verse 3. 3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
Verse 4. 4 And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.
Verse 5. 5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
What Remains True
Communal memory must preserve real people, households, disruptions, and belonging without turning ancestry into superiority, spiritual rank, or entitlement. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: Tola's descendants, chiefs, many wives and sons, and large military totals are recorded. In 1 Chronicles 7:1, the concrete line “Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.” When a community tells its story, document people accurately, notice women and outsiders as persons, state gaps honestly, and reject ancestry tests for dignity, faith, citizenship, land, or leadership. This response follows from the unit's own movement: Tola's descendants, chiefs, many wives and sons, and large military totals are recorded.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 1 Chronicles 7:1–5, 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 7:1–5
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NET Bible Full Notes: 1 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
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Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 1 Chronicles 7:1–5, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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