In this episode, we dive into the intricate genealogies found in 1 Chronicles chapters 7 and 8. As we listen to the passages, we discover the comprehensive record-keeping of the tribes of Issachar, Benjamin, and beyond, observing the mighty warriors and notable figures that shaped Israel’s history. Alan J. Huth provides insights from his personal Bible reading journals, reflecting on how these genealogical records connect to his own life and spiritual journey.
Welcome to Add Bible, an audio daily devotion from the Ezra Project. We join Allen J. Huth as he shares Bible passages and comments from over 30 years of his personal Bible reading journals.
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Today we are in 1 Chronicles chapters 7 and 8. The list of genealogies is getting shorter. Let’s listen in to Faith Comes by Hearing’s recording of chapters 7 and 8.
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1 Chronicles 7
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The sons of Issachar, Tola, Pua, Jashub, and Shimron, four. The sons of Tola, Uzziah, Rephaah, Jeriel, Jammai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being twenty-two thousand six hundred. the son of Uzziah, Izrahiah, and the sons of Izrahiah, Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Ishaiah. All five of them were chief men.
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And along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers’ houses, were units of the army for war, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons. Their kinsmen, belonging to all the clans of Issachar, were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors enrolled by genealogy.
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The sons of Benjamin, Bela, Beker, and Jediahel, three. The sons of Bela, Esbon, Uzziah, Uzziel, Jeremoth, and Irai, five. Heads of fathers’ houses, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogies was 22,034. The sons of Beker. Zemira, Joash, Eleazar, Elioenai, Amri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alameth.
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All these were the sons of Beker. And their enrollment, by genealogies according to their generations, as heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred. The son of Jediahel, Bilhan.
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And the sons of Bilhan, Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Canaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
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All these were the sons of Jedi-Eil, according to the heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand two hundred able to go to war.
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And Shuppem and Huppem were the sons of Eir, Hushim the son of Eir, the sons of Naphtali, Jaziel, Gunai, Jezer, and Shalem, the descendants of Bilhah, the sons of Manasseh, Azrael, whom his Aramean concubine bore. She bore Maker, the father of Gilead. And Maker took a wife for Huppam and for Shuppam. The name of his sister was Maacah, and the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters. And Maacah the wife of Makar bore a son, and she called his name Peerish, and the name of his brother was Shearish, and his sons were Ulam and Racham. The son of Ulam, Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Makar, son of Manasseh. And his sister, Hamaliketh, bore Ishad, Abiezer, and Malah. The sons of Shemita were Ahion, Shechem, Lichai, and Aniam. the sons of Ephraim, Shuthelah, and Bered his son, Tehath his son, Eliadah his son, Tehath his son, Zebad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Eliad, whom the men of Gath, who were born in the land, killed, because they came down to raid their livestock. And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. And Ephraim went into his wife, and she conceived and bore a son. And he called his name Beriah, because disaster had befallen his house. His daughter was Shearah, who built both lower and upper Beth Horon, and Uzzin Shearah. Rifa was his son, Resef his son, Tila his son, Tehan his son, Laden his son, Amihud his son, Elishamah his son, Nun his son, Joshua his son.
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Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and to the east, Naaran, and to the west, Gezer and its towns, Shechem and its towns, and Ea and its towns. Also in possession of the Manassites, Bethshean and its towns, Taanak and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel.
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The Sons of Asher Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvai, Beriah, and their sister Sirah. The sons of Beriah, Heber, and Malkiel, who fathered Birzaith. Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua. The sons of Japhlet, Pesach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japheth. The sons of Shemer his brother, Roga, Jehovah, and Aram. The sons of Helam his brother, Zophah, Imnah, Shelesh, and Amal. The sons of Zophah, Suah, Harnapher, Sheol, Birai, Imrah, Bezer, Hod, Shammah, Shilsha, Ithran, and Birah. All of these were men of Asher, heads of fathers’ houses, approved, mighty warriors, chiefs of the princes. Their number, enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was 26,000 men.
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1 Chronicles 8
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Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Ahara the third, Noha the fourth, and Raphah the fifth. And Bela had sons, Adder, Gera, Abihud, Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, Gera, Shephufan, and Hiram. These are the sons of Ehud. They were heads of fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they were carried into exile to Manahath. Naaman, Ahijah, and Gerah, that is, Heglam, who fathered Uzzah and Ahiad. And Shehereim fathered sons in the country of Moab, after he had sent away Hushim and Beorah, his wives. He fathered sons by Hodesh his wife, Jobeb, Zibiah, Meshah, Malcolm, Jeaz, Zechiah, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ houses. He also fathered sons by Hushim. Abitub, and Elpael. The sons of Elpael, Eber, Misham, and Shemid, who built Ono and Lod with its towns, and Beriah and Shema, they were heads of fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Ajalon, who caused the inhabitants of Gath to flee. and Ahio, Shashak, and Jerimoth. Zebediah, Arad, Eder, Michael, Ishpah, and Johah were sons of Beriah. Zebediah, Meshulam, Hizkiah, Heber, Ishmari, Isliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpahel. Jacob, Zechariah, Zabdiah, Eliani, Zilathai, Elial, Adaiah, Berea, and Shemrat were the sons of Shimei. Ishpan, Eber, Elial, Abdon, Zechariah, Hanan, Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah, Iphdiah, and Penuel were the sons of Shashak. Shamsherai, Sheheriah, Athaliah, Jearishiah, Elijah, and Zichri were the sons of Jerohim. These were the heads of fathers’ houses according to their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem. Jeiel, the father of Gibeon, lived in Gibeon, and the name of his wife was Maacah. His firstborn son, Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, Kedor, Ahio, Zechar, and Mikloth, he fathered Shemiah. Now these also lived opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem with their kinsmen. Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of Jonathan, Malkishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. And the son of Jonathan was Meribael, and Meribael was the father of Micah, the sons of Micah, Python, Melech, Tariah, and Ahaz. Ahaz fathered Jehoiada, and Jehoiada fathered Alameth, Asmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri fathered Mozah. Mozah fathered Benaiah. Rapha was his son, Eliezer his son, Azel his son. Azel had six sons, and these are their names, Azraqim, Bokeru, Ishmael, Shariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel. The sons of Eshik his brother, Ulam his firstborn, Jeash the second, and Eliphelet the third.
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The sons of Ulam were men who were mighty warriors, bowmen, having many sons and grandsons. One hundred fifty. All these were Benjaminites.
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Today we get to get back to some of the journals I wrote about these chapters. So let’s go back to 1983 when I was 28 years old. I read 1 Chronicles 4 through 9 on the same day, and I wrote History of Israel. The Bible is no fairy tale. It is a true story of people and their God. The record keeping and detail is incredible. I’m sure it is traceable. Praise God. Is it important to keep an accurate record of God’s intervention, guidance, and influence in my family? And that ended my journal entry in 1983. Fourteen years later, in 1997, I read 1 Chronicles 1-7 in one day and chapters 8-13 on another day. So, concerning that, I wrote, Not much excitement here in Chronicles unless you’re into genealogies. And the next day I wrote, Most of this is a review of 1 and 2 Kings. Twelve years later, in 2009, at 54 years old, I read 1 Chronicles 6 and 7 one day and 1 Chronicles 8 through 10 on another day. So concerning these chapters, I wrote, Am I a mighty man of valor? And I was referring to chapter 7, verses 2, 5, and 11. What is my genealogy? What is my legacy? That ends my journal entry in 2009. In chapter 7, there was a famous person’s genealogy. Did you catch it? Yes, it’s Joshua. It started in verse 20 and ended in verse 27. Joshua was a son of Ephraim. And down the line was the son of Nun, N-U-N. Joshua was the most famous Ephraimite. In the genealogy of chapter 8, there’s also a famous person in the scriptures, Saul. Saul was from the tribe of Benjamin. Down the line from Benjamin, Saul was the son of Kish. And Saul became the first king of Israel, you might remember. And he had a son named Jonathan. And Jonathan and David were really, really close friends. As we’re plowing through the genealogies in the first part of First Chronicles, let me remind you that AdBible audio daily devotions are from the Ezra Project and brought to you by generous donations of folks just like you. We have monthly donors who give from $10 a month to $400 a month and every amount in between. If you are personally benefiting from AdBible, and that may be a question right now in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles, but surely you are benefiting from AdBible, please take a moment to pray. Ask the Lord if you could become a monthly giver, or maybe you could join Club 365. There you would get access to all the transcripts of all the books we’ve recorded. so Club 365 membership might be something interesting to you. Visit our website at EzraProject.net and see if you want to become a financial partner. Your financial gifts are completely tax-deductible in the United States, so visit EzraProject.net or hit Donate Now on your AdBible app and become a financial partner today. And may God bless you as you do. Lord, we thank you for the genealogies in the Bible, a historical record of you and your people. We also thank you for those who financially partner with the Ezra Project so that we can continue to record the books of the Bible. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.
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