More names. More history of a the driest kind. I’ve been lucky that there’s been comparatively little of this in my journey through the Bible. The good thing about a genealogy is that it covers the centuries in very few words.
Tribe of Reuben
Exodus 6:14, 1 Chronicles 5:1-9
Tribe of Gad
1 Chronicles 5:11-17
Tribe of Manasseh (east)
1 Chronicles 5:23-24
Tribe of Manasseh (west)
1 Chronicles 7:14-19
Tribe of Simeon
Exodus 6:15
1 Chronicles 4:24-27, 34-38
Tribe of Issachar
1 Chronicles 7:1-5
Tribe of Naphtali
1 Chronicles 7:13
Tribe of Ephraim
1 Chronicles 7:20-29
Tribe of Asher
1 Chronicles 7:30-40
Tribe of Benjamin
1 Chronicles 7:6-12, 8:1-28
Summary
1 Chronicles 9:1
We get a clue from the very last verse today (9:1) that Chronicles was written in the exile. As such, it’s looking back a very long way. It’s about equivalent to a British look back to Regency times, to that distressing incident when we lost the American colonies. (Harrumph)
Both Solomon and David have their bad deeds airbrushed out, as we’ve already seen, and their reigns have that rose tinted, Golden Age look about them.
Meanwhile, the growth of the different tribes is charted, the areas of Israel they lived in, and a few points of interest noted. Because Reuben was a naughty boy, his status as first born was taken by Joseph, who gets tow tribes, named after his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.
Otherwise, there’s not a lot of interest here, just catalogues of names that mean nothing to me.
Might as well be reading the phone book.
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