And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith.
And the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
And sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel--he is father of Birzavith.
And the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith.
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?
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Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. Why they only should be omitted we can assign no reason; only it is the disgrace of the tribe of Dan that idolatry began in that colony of the Danites which fixed in Laish, and called Dan, and there one of the golden calves was set up by Jeroboam.
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.
