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1 Chronicles 16:20

in 1 Chronicles 16

they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they went about from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people.

KJV

And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

This verse in 1 Chronicles 16

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

few in number, few indeed, and strangers

on 1 Chronicles 16:19-22

The LORD “rebuked kings on their behalf”, warning “Do not touch My anointed ones” and “Do no harm to My prophets”. Adam Clarke takes the anointed as the patriarchs themselves, who held a royal and priestly rank under God before Israel had a throne. The lines parallel Ps 105:12-15.

This site's exposition

wandered from nation to nation

The patriarchs moved from one kingdom to another as strangers. Abraham went down to Egypt and to Gerar. Adam Clarke lists Genesis 12:17 and 20:3 as places where God guarded Abraham among those kingdoms, and Genesis 31:24 for Jacob.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּֽתְהַלְּכוּ֙and they went about

    vaiyithalekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • מִגּ֣וֹיfrom nation

    migoyH1471 →561 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • גּ֔וֹיnation

    goyH1471 →561 times

  • וּמִמַּמְלָכָ֖הand from a kingdom

    umimamlakhahH4467 →117 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • עַ֥םa people

    ʾamH5971 →1873 times

  • אַחֵֽר׃another

    ʾacherH312 →166 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 46:3

    “I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 26:5

      and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 12:2

      I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

  • Through

    Genesis 46:6

    They also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.

    it leads to

    • Acts 7:15

      So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.

    • Isaiah 52:4

      For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

    • Joshua 24:4

      and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

    • Psalms 105:23

      Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

  • Through

    Genesis 12:10

    Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

    it leads to

  • Through

    Genesis 20:1

    Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

    it leads to

    • Genesis 26:1

      Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.