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1 Chronicles 7:3 Explained in Context
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Verse 3. 3And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five….” 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 7:3 with 7:1–5. 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: Tola's descendants, chiefs, many wives and sons, and large military totals are recorded.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 7:3 depends on 7:1–5; isolating “And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five…” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Issachar's households are counted for war.”
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.
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 7:1–5, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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