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1 Chronicles 7:32 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 32. 32And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Asher's households close the northern lists.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 7:30–40
Read 1 Chronicles 7:32 with 7:30–40. 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: Asher's sons, daughters, chiefs, and a large military total are named.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Asher's households close the northern lists,” 1 Chronicles 7:32 advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence through the wording “And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: The chapter ends with another tribe remembered through kinship, leadership, and mobilization before Benjamin receives extended treatment. 1 Chronicles 7:20–29 has just established this prior movement: Ephraim's sons are killed during a cattle raid, the household mourns, Beriah is born amid disaster, Sheerah builds towns, and the line reaches Joshua and Josephite settlements. Together those details explain why “Asher's households close the northern lists” belongs here rather than merely following a database record.
Read 1 Chronicles 7:30–40 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 7:30–40 forms the complete movement “Asher's households close the northern lists”: Asher's sons, daughters, chiefs, and a large military total are named.
Verse 30. 30 The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
Verse 31. 31 And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith.
Verse 32. 32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
Verse 33. 33 And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
Verse 34. 34 And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
Verse 35. 35 And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
Verse 36. 36 The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
Verse 37. 37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
Verse 38. 38 And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.
Verse 39. 39 And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.
Verse 40. 40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father’s house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
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: Asher's sons, daughters, chiefs, and a large military total are named. In 1 Chronicles 7:32, the concrete line “And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.” 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: Asher's sons, daughters, chiefs, and a large military total are named.
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Biblical text
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Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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Biblical Studies Press
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