From b2643323406f1f084695593d5977bc1916bfe103 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 10:28:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 1 Chronicles 3:1-24 --- content/bible_journal/1chronicles_3:1-24.md | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/1chronicles_3:1-24.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/1chronicles_3:1-24.md b/content/bible_journal/1chronicles_3:1-24.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3fa6c6c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/1chronicles_3:1-24.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ ++++ +title = "1 Chronicles 3:1–24" +date = "2023-09-04" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/1Chronicles3.1-24) + +The descendants of Judah have been listed, up to the generation of David, more +or less. Now the focus zooms in on the line of the kings. First, David's sons +are listed, arranged by their birthplace and their mothers. Bath-shua's (that +is, Bathsheba) sons are not listed in birth order, as Solomon is the second of +her son's mentioned in 2 Samuel (and the only one named). Her first died due to +the judgement on David's sin concerning her husband Uriah. Most of David's +children are not mentioned elsewhere, but the ones that are don't have +well-known stories for good reasons. + +From here, brothers and sisters are not mentioned as the genealogy follows +direct descent from Solomon to Josiah. After Josiah, the kingdom of Judah does +not pass cleanly from father to son because of foreign influence, from both +Egypt and Babylon. A king would be deposed and his brother set up in his place, +or his uncle in some cases. Eventually Judah is fully conquered and the royal +family is taken captive while Jeconiah (a.k.a. Jehoiachin in 2 Kings) was king. +This genealogy establishes that Zerubbabel is in the line of David. This +Zerubbabel was the leader of the exiles who returned to rebuild Jerusalem. + +There seems to be some debate about whether the families listed in verses 21 to +24 are desendend from each other or are other Davidic families contemporary +with Zerubbabel. The impetus for this view is an early date for the text, close +to the time of Zerubbabel's life. This seems too much like _eisegesis_ to me, +imposing a meaning onto the text, when what we want to be doing is _exegesis_, +extracting meaning out of the text. This text lists the sons of a father, picks +one of those sons and names his sons, over and over. I believe there is still +enough time between the return of the exiles and the reconstruction of the +temple and the proposed date of the compilation of Ezra-Nehemiah (they were +originally one book) for the author of 1 Chronicles to know about 6 generations +after Zerubbabel and also be Ezra himself. The Chronicler wasn't necessarily +Ezra either, but that is the tradition. + +* * * + +Your words are true forever.