And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
and Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
and Obed begat Jehu,
and Obed begot Jehu, and Jehu begot Azariah,
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?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
