Category Archives: 1 Chronicles

From Adam to Abraham 1 Adam was the father of Seth, Seth was the father of Enosh, Enosh the father of Kenan, 2 Kenan the father of Mahalalel, Mahalalel the father of Jared. 3 Jared was the father of Enoch, who was the father of Methuselah; Methuselah was the father of Lamech, 4 who was […]

The Descendants of Judah 1 Jacob had twelve sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, 2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 3 Judah had five sons in all. By his wife Bathshua, a Canaanite, he had three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. His oldest son, Er, was so evil that the Lord killed […]

King David’s Children 1-3 The following, in order of age, are David’s sons who were born while he was in Hebron: Amnon, whose mother was Ahinoam from Jezreel Daniel, whose mother was Abigail from Carmel Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, daughter of King Talmai of Geshur Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith Shephatiah, whose mother was […]

The Descendants of Judah 1 These are some of the descendants of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal. 2 Shobal was the father of Reaiah, who was the father of Jahath, the father of Ahumai and Lahad, the ancestors of the people who lived in Zorah. 3-4 Hur was the oldest son of his […]

The Descendants of Reuben 1 These are the descendants of Reuben, the oldest of Jacob’s sons. (Because he had sex with one of his father’s concubines, he lost the rights belonging to the first-born son, and those rights were given to Joseph. 2 It was the tribe of Judah, however, that became the strongest and […]

The Family Line of the High Priests 1 Levi had three sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 2 Kohath had four sons: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 3 Amram had two sons, Aaron and Moses, and one daughter, Miriam. Aaron had four sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 4 The descendants of Eleazar from generation to […]

The Descendants of Issachar 1 Issachar had four sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron. 2 Tola had six sons: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel. They were heads of families of the clan of Tola and were famous soldiers. At the time of King David their descendants numbered 22,600. 3 Uzzi had one son, […]

The Descendants of Benjamin 1 Benjamin had five sons. In order of age they were Bela, Ashbel, Aharah, 2 Nohah, and Rapha. 3 The descendants of Bela were Addar, Gera, Abihud, 4 Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, 5 Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram. 6-7 The descendants of Ehud were Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera. They were heads of families […]

The People Who Returned from Captivity 1 All the people of Israel were listed according to their families, and this information was recorded inThe Book of the Kings of Israel. The people of Judah had been deported to Babylon as punishment for their sins. 2 The first to return to their property in the cities […]

The Death of King Saul 1 The Philistines fought a battle against the Israelites on Mount Gilboa. Many Israelites were killed there, and the rest of them, including King Saul and his sons, fled. 2 But the Philistines caught up with them and killed three of Saul’s sons, Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua. 3 The fighting […]