June 18, 2019
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Reading along with us in 1 Chronicles? Here’s today’s reading:
1 Chronicles 2 (ESV)
These are the sons of Israel......Continue Reading
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12Boaz fathered Obed, Obed fathered Jesse. 13Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third, 14Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 15Ozem the sixth, David the seventh. 16
I like the minor information that is scattered among the genealogy.
“Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death.” I wonder what he did?
“Judah’s daughter-in-law Tamar bore Perez and Zerah to Judah. He had five sons in all.” We know the story of Judah not giving Tamar to his remaining sons and thus her motive for “entrapment”.
“Achar, who brought trouble on Israel by violating the ban on taking devoted things.”
“Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail.” All of a sudden we hear about daughters. Apparently this is a different Abigail than the wife of Nabal, that David married.
“Later, Hezron, when he was sixty years old, married the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead. He made love to her, and she bore him Segub. ” So this guy gets remarried at 60. I wonder why they give the details of how Segub was conceived. Isn’t this how all babies are made? or was there some deeper relationship here that Hezron had for Makir’s daughter (who apparently has no name)?
There is more to see. Two guys died without children. One guy had only daughters. All these little details are very interesting.
I read it! I have to say that without the historical knowledge behind these people, it’s hard to parse anything out of the genealogies beyond the recordkeeping aspect. The genealogies that trace Adam through Jesus give me insight when specific characters are mentioned (like Judah’s blessing from Jacob), but the rest get lost on me right now.
Wow, there are so many names. Reading through this makes my head spin trying to keep track of the lineage of some families.
One thing I noted is that this text speaks of a man named Caleb, but it is not the same Caleb that went to spy out the land with Joshua according to the ESV study notes. I mention this because he ends up having children with his father’s wife (mother-in-law) and I was thinking that this does not sound consistent with Caleb from the time of Joshua.
There is something beautiful about a chronicle of past family
I, like Amy, was struck by the minor details given and interesting to consider why certain things stuck in the records of this history. And although much of it is lost on us, it was certainly important to the people of that time. It also shows that life is not tremendously different when it comes to human relationship and the opportunity we all have to choose to do right or wrong. It causes us to think, if there was a little byline to describe our life, what would it be? What would we be noted for?