Passage Research
1 Chronicles 8 — Sermon Preparation
Benjamin's genealogy is traced in detail, culminating in the family line of Saul, whose ancestry is traced through Kish in Gibeon. Below is a research summary for 1 Chronicles 8, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 2
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
1 Chronicles 8 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יָלַד | yâlad | H3205 | 14 | bear young, beget |
| אֶלְפַּעַל | ʼElpaʻal | H508 | 3 | Elpaal |
| מְרִיב בַּעַל | Mᵉrîyb Baʻal | H4807 | 3 | quarreller of Baal, Merib-Baal |
| יָשַׁב | yâshab | H3427 | 6 | sit, dwell |
| אָצֵל | ʼÂtsêl | H682 | 3 | Atsel |
| גֵּרָא | Gêrâʼ | H1617 | 3 | Gera |
| רֹאשׁ | rôʼsh | H7218 | 5 | head |
How preachers through history handled this text
2 public-domain excerpts on 1 Chronicles 8, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“We had some account given us of Benjamin in the foregoing chapter; here we have a larger catalogue of the great men of that tribe. 1. Because of that tribe Saul came, the first king of Israel, to the story of whom the sacred writer is hastening, ch. x. 1. 2. Because that tribe clave to Judah, inhabited much of Jerusalem, was one of the two tribes that went into captivity, and returned back; and that story also he has an eye to, ch. ix. 1. Here is, I. Some of the heads of that tribe named, ver. 1-32. II. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on 1 Chronicles 8:1–40 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Lod— 1 Chr 8:12
- Ono— 1 Chr 8:12
- Aijalon 1— 1 Chr 8:13
- Gath 2— 1 Chr 8:13
- Jerusalem— 1 Chr 8:28
- Gibeon— 1 Chr 8:29
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