Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
of Jezer the family of the Jezerite; of Shillem the family of the Shillemite.
of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
The verses this one reaches1
The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum—the descendants of Bilhah.
The walk4
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
1 Chronicles 7:13The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum—the descendants of Bilhah.
leads to
These were the descendants of Naphtali by their clans: The Jahzeelite clan from Jahzeel, the Gunite clan from Guni,
Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
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