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1 Chronicles 27 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for 1 Chronicles 27, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

34
verses: 406 / 194
Hebrew words / lemmas: 4
classic sermon excerpts: 2
preachers & commentators

1 Chronicles 27 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Count	Glosses
מַחֲלֹקֶת	machălôqeth	H4256	18	section
חֹדֶשׁ	chôdesh	H2320	16	new, month
עֶשְׂרִים	ʻesrîym	H6242	14	twenty, twentieth
אֶלֶף	ʼeleph	H505	14	thousand
אַרְבַּע	ʼarbaʻ	H702	13	four
שַׂר	sar	H8269	7	head
בְּנָיָה	Bᵉnâyâh	H1141	4	Benajah

How preachers through history handled this text

4 public-domain excerpts on 1 Chronicles 27, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Matthew Henry 3 John Wesley 1

“In this chapter we have the civil list, including the military, I. The twelve captains for every separate month of the year, ver. 1-15. II. The princes of the several tribes, ver. 16-24. III. The officers of the court, ver. 25-34. The Officers of the Army. (b. c. 1015.) 1 Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every cour …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on 1 Chronicles 27:1–34 (Public Domain)

Places in the text

Based on ancient-geography data

Hushah — 1 Chr 27:11
Anathoth — 1 Chr 27:12
Netophah — 1 Chr 27:13
Pirathon — 1 Chr 27:14
Gilead 1 — 1 Chr 27:21

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