Read 1 Chronicles 9:1-44
This is the final chapter of the genealogies compiled by the Chronicler. While we see some repetition in the data, this chapter connects the dots between the families before and after the exile. We’re told what happened to these families in the first verse. “The people of Judah were exiled to Babylon because they were unfaithful to the Lord.”
The decline in faithfulness took years, but it was the descendants we’ve just read about in the first part of this book who ended up in exile. The rest of 1 Chronicles will tell the story of King David’s reign, and we’ll see how God was moving at that point in history.
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