Today, I am reading and commenting on  1 Chronicles 7-9.

And today we have more of the genealogies.  Today’s passage makes it abundantly clear that the books of Chronicles were written after the Exile by listing those who were among the first to resettle in the territory which had been Israel.  Here we are told that the genealogies listed come from the books of the kings of Israel and Judah, that those books contained the genealogies of all of Israel.  There is supporting evidence for this is in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah which reference people whose genealogy was inadequately documented (which suggests that the copies of the books of the kings of Israel and Judah had parts which could no longer be read).  I want to say that even though I am not getting much out of these this year there is value to these passages and the genealogies they contain.  In part because they do establish a continuity between the Jews who returned from the Babylonian Exile and the Ancient Israelites.  And, history since then provides continuity with the Jews of modern Israel with those post-Exilic Jews.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.