1 Chronicles 4:7

Study note

Setting — The chronicler records the lineage of Judah’s descendants during a systematic survey of tribal families to establish post-exilic identity and inheritance rights.

The words — בְּנֵ֖י (ve.Nei) = sons of, and חֶלְאָ֑ה (chel.'Ah) = Helah, marking the direct paternal link that structures the list.

The thread — Genealogical records of Judah’s descendants run through 1 Chronicles 2–4 and parallel Ezra 2:33–34 and Nehemiah 7:37–38.

Why it lands — The text demands recognition of each named individual as a documented link in the covenant community’s continuity, requiring the reader to treat the list as factual record rather than symbolic narrative.

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.