Today, I am reading and commenting on 1 Chronicles 5-6.

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This is the third day in a row where the Bible passage is basically a genealogy.  There is a little more to these passages than that, but they are primarily genealogies.  There are things we can learn from these genealogies, but those things are easy to miss.  I am quite sure that I miss quite a few of them.  In fact, I am going to say right now that I have not seen any spiritual lessons in today’s passage, but I am going to comment on the things that stood out to me and see if as I write about them, something beyond the “well, that’s interesting” comes to me as I write.  The first thing I noticed was that in the list of sons of Reuben it lists four men.  Then it says, “The sons of Joel:…” and lists what appears to be a lineage which ends with Beerah who was carried into exile by Tiglath-pileser.  It appears that Joel was a descendant of Reuben, but it is not clear who his father was.  My suspicion is that the reason we don’t know who Joel’s father was is because a copying error at some point dropped that connection.

When we come to the genealogies of the Levites the first thing I noticed was that the descendants of Levi reused names to a greater degree than the other lines I have looked at so far.  Along with the genealogies of the Levites the passage also mentions some of the cities given to the Levites.  Interestingly, at least to me, Hebron was given to the Levites as a city of refuge.  I found that interesting because David made Hebron his capital when he was king of just the tribe of Judah, before he became king of all of Israel and moved his capital to Jerusalem.  Another thing I noticed was that Gibeon was one of the cities listed here as being given to the Levites.  I noted that because Gibeon was the city of Canaanites who made a treaty with the Israelites under Joshua by using deception.  Then I saw that there was a translator’s note which said that Gibeon appeared in the Septuagint, but not in the other manuscripts we have of this passage.  Which caused me to notice that the passage does not mention the pasturelands of Gibeon, even though it does for the other cities given to the Levites.

Finally, that led me to look up some information on Geba.  From that I learned the Gebah was fairly close to Jerusalem, to Bethlehem (from whence King David hailed), and to Gibeah (from whence King Saul hailed).  I am not sure there is any significance to that, but I find it interesting to see connections between King David and the cities of the Levites.  Although making a connection between David and Gebah may be a stretch.

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