The verse stands as one of the personal names in the genealogical records and lists of tribes and families that open Chronicles. It belongs to the genealogical lists that fill the first eight chapters of Chronicles. Those lists and genealogies of the various tribes are also reckoned as found in the first nine chapters of Chronicles. Its chapter consists nearly entirely of personal names, part of long lists of hard-to-pronounce names that hold little particular interest in themselves.
Chronicles forms one book in the third part of the Jewish arrangement, called Words or Acts of Days, meaning minutes of events, lists of names and the like, called in Greek Things omitted or passed over, and in Latin Chronica. Chronicles gives much more attention to the house of Judah and the priesthood than Kings does. The records preserve the lineage of God's people and the integrity of the tribes, preserving family descent needed after the exile to establish hereditary land ownership and duties in temple service. The genealogy of Judah is especially carefully preserved because Christ came through that tribe.
The lists may be difficult to understand or seem to have little value, but their presence shows that the Bible contains material of differing interest and value to different readers. The genealogies record the origin and distribution of races and can draw students of ethnology toward spiritual truth. As part of such a chapter, the verse illustrates that many Bible verses are not promises. The verse shows God is particular, who commanded His people to keep record of genealogies and moved scribes to record them, which proves a faithful record of each soul is kept in the books of heaven.
The verse stands as one of the personal names in the genealogical records and lists of tribes and families that open Chronicles. It belongs to the genealogical lists that fill the first eight chapters of Chronicles. Those lists and genealogies of the various tribes are also reckoned as found in the first nine chapters of Chronicles. Its chapter consists nearly entirely of personal names, part of long lists of hard-to-pronounce names that hold little particular interest in themselves.
Chronicles forms one book in the third part of the Jewish arrangement, called Words or Acts of Days, meaning minutes of events, lists of names and the like, called in Greek Things omitted or passed over, and in Latin Chronica. Chronicles gives much more attention to the house of Judah and the priesthood than Kings does. The records preserve the lineage of God's people and the integrity of the tribes, preserving family descent needed after the exile to establish hereditary land ownership and duties in temple service. The genealogy of Judah is especially carefully preserved because Christ came through that tribe.
The lists may be difficult to understand or seem to have little value, but their presence shows that the Bible contains material of differing interest and value to different readers. The genealogies record the origin and distribution of races and can draw students of ethnology toward spiritual truth. As part of such a chapter, the verse illustrates that many Bible verses are not promises. The verse shows God is particular, who commanded His people to keep record of genealogies and moved scribes to record them, which proves a faithful record of each soul is kept in the books of heaven.