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    1 Chronicles · 54 verses

    1 Chronicles 1

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    Edom’s kings arrive one after another, each taking the place of the dead, until the last king dies and the chapter changes the furniture: no successor is named, only the chiefs of Edom.

    From Adam to Abrahamvv. 1–27

    The chapter begins with a single human thread—Adam, Seth, Enosh, and onward through Noah—then opens into three branches: Japheth, Ham, and Shem. Names multiply briskly, with Gomer’s sons, Javan’s sons, Cush’s sons, and the numerous peoples descended from Mizraim and Canaan. In the Shemite line, Eber receives a small piece of narrative amid the naming: one son is called Peleg because, in his days, the earth was divided. The list then narrows again through Arphaxad, Shelah, Eber, and the generations down to Abram, that is, Abraham.

    Abraham’s crowded householdvv. 28–42

    Abraham’s sons are Isaac and Ishmael, and the chapter gives Ishmael’s twelve sons in a long, orderly procession. Then comes Keturah, Abraham’s concubine, with six sons; Midian has five sons of his own, while Jokshan has Sheba and Dedan. Isaac’s sons are Esau and Israel. Esau’s line expands through Eliphaz and Reuel, and then the genealogy turns to Seir, whose descendants arrive in another dense family cluster. Timna appears once as the one by whom Amalek was born, and again as Lotan’s sister; the text places both notices on the page and leaves their relationship there.

    The kings, and then the chiefsvv. 43–54

    The final movement is almost a little royal conveyor belt. Bela son of Beor reigns in Edom, then Jobab, Husham, Hadad, Samlah, Shaul, Baal-hanan, and another Hadad, each entering when the previous ruler dies. Cities and regions are supplied along the way—Dinhabah, Bozrah, Avith, Masrekah, Rehoboth on the Euphrates, and Pau—so the succession comes with its own small map. But when the second Hadad dies, there is no ninth king waiting in the wings. Instead, the chapter ends with eleven chiefs of Edom, a royal list quietly giving way to a chiefly one.

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    1. 1 Chr 1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh,

    2. 1 Chr 1:2Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

    3. 1 Chr 1:3Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah.

    4. 1 Chr 1:4The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

    5. 1 Chr 1:5The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

    6. 1 Chr 1:6The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

    7. 1 Chr 1:7And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

    8. 1 Chr 1:8The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

    9. 1 Chr 1:9The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

    10. 1 Chr 1:10Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

    11. 1 Chr 1:11Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,

    12. 1 Chr 1:12the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.

    13. 1 Chr 1:13And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

    14. 1 Chr 1:14the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

    15. 1 Chr 1:15the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

    16. 1 Chr 1:16the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

    17. 1 Chr 1:17The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.

    18. 1 Chr 1:18Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

    19. 1 Chr 1:19Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.

    20. 1 Chr 1:20And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

    21. 1 Chr 1:21Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

    22. 1 Chr 1:22Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

    23. 1 Chr 1:23Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

    24. 1 Chr 1:24So from Shem came Arphaxad, Shelah,

    25. 1 Chr 1:25Eber, Peleg, Reu,

    26. 1 Chr 1:26Serug, Nahor, Terah,

    27. 1 Chr 1:27and Abram (that is, Abraham).

    28. 1 Chr 1:28The sons of Abraham were Isaac and Ishmael.

    29. 1 Chr 1:29These are their genealogies: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

    30. 1 Chr 1:30Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,

    31. 1 Chr 1:31Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael.

    32. 1 Chr 1:32The sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

    33. 1 Chr 1:33The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All of these were Keturah’s sons.

    34. 1 Chr 1:34Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

    35. 1 Chr 1:35The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

    36. 1 Chr 1:36The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz; and by Timna, Amalek.

    37. 1 Chr 1:37The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

    38. 1 Chr 1:38The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.

    39. 1 Chr 1:39The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam. Timna was Lotan’s sister.

    40. 1 Chr 1:40The sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.

    41. 1 Chr 1:41The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

    42. 1 Chr 1:42The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

    43. 1 Chr 1:43These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela son of Beor. His city was named Dinhabah.

    44. 1 Chr 1:44When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place.

    45. 1 Chr 1:45When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

    46. 1 Chr 1:46When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.

    47. 1 Chr 1:47When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place.

    48. 1 Chr 1:48When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place.

    49. 1 Chr 1:49When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place.

    50. 1 Chr 1:50When Baal-hanan died, Hadad reigned in his place. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

    51. 1 Chr 1:51Then Hadad died. Now the chiefs of Edom were Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

    52. 1 Chr 1:52Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,

    53. 1 Chr 1:53Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

    54. 1 Chr 1:54Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom.

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    Named in the Hebrew or Greek somewhere in this chapter, under a form the English renders differently — the registry's Ludim against the translation's Ludites — so there is no word in the sentence to hang the link on.

    02 — Read alongside

    Where this is echoed

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    • 1Genesis 4:25–32And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
    • 1Luke 3:38the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
    • 2Luke 3:37the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,
    • 25Luke 3:35the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,
    • 4Genesis 5:32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
    • 50Genesis 36:39When Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, Hadad reigned in his place. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
    • 3Jude 1:14Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
    • 8Genesis 10:6–7The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
    • 11Genesis 10:13–18Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,
    • 14Genesis 15:21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
    • 14Joshua 3:10He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
    • 24Genesis 11:10–26This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
    • 32Genesis 25:1–4Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
    • 34Genesis 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
    • 35Genesis 36:4–5And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,
    • 35Genesis 36:9–10This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.

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