1 Chronicles 1:1-54 Adam, Sheth, Enosh,… Israel was Jehovah's chosen people, His son, to whom special privileges were guaranteed by solemn covenant. A man's claim to share in this covenant depended on his genuine Israelite descent, and the proof of such descent was an authentic genealogy. In these chapters the chronicler has taken infinite pains to collect pedigrees from all available sources and to construct a complete set of genealogies exhibiting the lines of descent of the families of Israel. These chapters, which seem to us so dry and useless, were probably regarded by the chronicler's contemporaries as the most important part of his work. The preservation or discovery of a genealogy was almost a matter of life and death (Ezra 2:61-63; Nehemiah 7:63-65). (W. H. Bennett, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Adam, Sheth, Enosh,WEB: Adam, Seth, Enosh, |
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