Tuesday 22 October 2013

Adventure 20 1 Chronicles 1-10

Challenged to read 1 Chronicles 1-10 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%201&version=WEB

An overview http://www.ivpress.com/bible/1chron/
There is lots of genealogies in the first nine chapter that have 3 functions: the familial or domestic, the legal-political, and the religious.
In the domestic area an individual’s social status, privileges and obligations may be reflected in his placement in the lineage (see 7:14–19); the rights of the firstborn son and the secondary status of the children of concubines are examples from the Bible.
In the political sphere genealogies substantiate claims to hereditary office or settle competing claims when the office is contested. Land organization and territorial groupings of social units may also be determined by genealogical reckoning—e.g., the division of the land among the 12 tribes. In Israel military levies also proceeded along genealogical lines; several of the genealogies in Chronicles reflect military conscription (5:1–26; 7:1–12,30–40; 8:1–40).
Genealogies function in the religious sphere primarily by establishing membership among the priests and Levites (6:1–30; 9:10–34; Ne 7:61–65).
Taken from http://www.biblica.com/niv/study-bible/1-chronicles/

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