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1 Chronicles 7:8 Explained in Context
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Verse 8. 8And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Benjamin's first list emphasizes fighting households.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 7:6–12
Read 1 Chronicles 7:8 with 7:6–12. 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: Benjaminite branches through Bela, Becher, and Jediael are counted as military households, with Shuppim, Huppim, and Hushim added.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Benjamin's first list emphasizes fighting households,” 1 Chronicles 7:8 advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence through the wording “And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: This first Benjamin account preserves a different arrangement before chapter 8's Jerusalem- and Saul-facing genealogy. 1 Chronicles 7:1–5 has just established this prior movement: Tola's descendants, chiefs, many wives and sons, and large military totals are recorded. Together those details explain why “Benjamin's first list emphasizes fighting households” belongs here rather than merely following a database record.
Read 1 Chronicles 7:6–12 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 7:6–12 forms the complete movement “Benjamin's first list emphasizes fighting households”: Benjaminite branches through Bela, Becher, and Jediael are counted as military households, with Shuppim, Huppim, and Hushim added.
Verse 6. 6 The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
Verse 7. 7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
Verse 8. 8 And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
Verse 9. 9 And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
Verse 10. 10 The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
Verse 11. 11 All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
Verse 12. 12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.
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: Benjaminite branches through Bela, Becher, and Jediael are counted as military households, with Shuppim, Huppim, and Hushim added. In 1 Chronicles 7:8, the concrete line “And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah…” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah….” 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: Benjaminite branches through Bela, Becher, and Jediael are counted as military households, with Shuppim, Huppim, and Hushim added.
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Biblical text
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
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