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1 Chronicles 9 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for 1 Chronicles 9, 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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Hebrew words / lemmas
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classic sermon excerpts
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preachers & commentators

1 Chronicles 9 in the Hebrew

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

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
יָלַד yâlad H3205 9 bear young, beget
אָח ʼâch H251 9 brother
שׁוֹעֵר shôwʻêr H7778 6 janitor
אָב ʼâb H1 8 father
לֵוִיִּי Lêvîyîy H3881 6 Levite
מְשֻׁלָּם Mᵉshullâm H4918 4 Meshullam
שַׁלּוּם Shallûwm H7967 4 Shallum

How preachers through history handled this text

2 public-domain excerpts on 1 Chronicles 9, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Matthew Henry 1 John Wesley 1

“This chapter intimates to us that one end of recording all these genealogies was to direct the Jews, now that they had returned out of captivity, with whom to incorporate and where to reside; for here we have an account of those who first took possession of Jerusalem after their return from Babylon, and began the rebuilding of it upon the old foundation. I. The Israelites, ver. 2-9. II. The priests, ver. 10-13. III. The Levites and other Nethinim, ver. 14-26. IV. Here is the particular charge of some of the priests and Levites, ver. 27-34. V. …”

— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on 1 Chronicles 9:1–44 (Public Domain)

Places in the text

Based on ancient-geography data

  • Babylon 1 — 1 Chr 9:1
  • Netophah — 1 Chr 9:16
  • Jerusalem — 1 Chr 9:3
  • Gibeon — 1 Chr 9:35

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