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1 Chronicles 8 — Sermon Preparation

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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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.

Matthew Henry 1 John Wesley 1

“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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