1 Chronicles 2:47

Study note

Setting — The Chronicler records a genealogical list of Jahdai’s sons within a structured accounting of Caleb’s household descendants. This entry sits between the offspring listings of Caleb’s concubines Ephah and Maacah.

The words — The Hebrew name יָהְדָּ֑י (Yahdai) anchors the list as the patriarch, while רֶ֧גֶם (Regem) opens the sequence of six enumerated sons. These proper nouns function as structural markers rather than descriptive titles.

The thread — This cataloging format directly parallels the adjacent accounts in 1 Chronicles 2:46 and 1 Chronicles 2:48, which similarly itemize the children of Caleb’s concubines. The same genealogical structure recurs throughout the Chronicler’s work to document tribal and clan divisions.

Why it lands — The text presents a bare enumeration of names without narrative expansion or theological commentary. It requires the reader to accept ancestral continuity as a recorded fact and to locate this family within the broader lineage framework.

Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.