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1 Chronicles 7:33 Explained in Context
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Verse 33. 33And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
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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 Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.” 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 7:33 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 It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 7:33 depends on 7:30–40; isolating “And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Asher's households close the northern lists.”
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.
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 7:30–40, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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