📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 9:6
What does 1 Chronicles 9:6 mean?
"Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six hundred ninety."
— 1 Chronicles 9:6 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:
Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six hundred ninety.
Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,
and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers’ households by their fathers’ houses.
Explanation
This verse comes from a lengthy genealogical record, and on the surface it simply states a numerical fact: among the descendants of a man named Zerah, a leader named Jeuel and his relatives numbered six hundred ninety people. It is part of a longer list cataloging the families who resettled Jerusalem and Judah after the Babylonian exile. Zerah himself was one of the twin sons of Judah (born to Judah and Tamar, as
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