1 Chronicles 7:28 meaning and explanation

Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.

1 Chronicles 7:28, Berean Standard Bible

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This verse closes the Ephraimite genealogy by listing the towns and villages that belonged to Ephraim's descendants. The Chronicler, writing after the exile for a community reestablished around Jerusalem, is mapping the ancestral inheritance of Joseph's tribes.

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