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

Today, I am reading and commenting on 1 Chronicles 2-4.

This is a passage that I would never spend any time on if I was not writing this blog. One thing which struck me initially is that the number of generations listed here from Judah to David does not seem to fill the time between them. In particular, there does not seem to be enough generations to fill both the time spent in Egypt and the time from when they left Egypt until David rules. Part of the reason for this was that I was under the impression that the Israelites were in Egypt for 400 years )approximately). However, as I did a little research I discovered that the 400 years was approximately the time from Abraham’s feast when Isaac was five years old until Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. This shortens the time in Egypt to a little more than 200 years. While it still seems to me like a few generations are missing from this genealogy, that change in timing means that perhaps not.