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1 Chronicles 7:9 Explained in Context
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Verse 9. 9And 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.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next name, action, speech, or consequence: “And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers….” 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 7:9 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 It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 7:9 depends on 7:6–12; isolating “And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers…” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Benjamin's first list emphasizes fighting households.”
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.
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Biblical text
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