And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.
And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.
and Samlah dieth, and reign in his stead doth Shaul from Rehoboth of the River;
And Samlah died; and Saul of Rehoboth on the river reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles — A post-exilic retelling of Israel's story through the Davidic line — genealogies from Adam to Saul, then David's reign reframed around temple preparation. The priestly history that answers the exile's question: what does it mean to return?
Voices1
Adam was the common father of our flesh, Abraham the common father of the faithful. By the breach which the former made of the covenant of innocency, we were all made miserable; by the covenant of grace made with the latter, we all are, or may be, made happy. We all are, by nature, the seed of Adam, branches of that wild olive.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches1
When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place.
The walk1
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Genesis 36:37When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place.
leads to
From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
