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Tuesday · Week 33
The Books of History

I Chronicles 5-9

Reading 226 of 364
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I Chronicles 5

1And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, (for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest.

2Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from him came the ruler, the birthright was Joseph's:)

3The sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

4The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

5Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

6Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, took away as a prisoner: he was chief of the Reubenites.

7And his brothers by their families, when the list of their generations was made up: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

8And Bela, the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who was living in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon;

9And to the east his limits went as far as the starting point of the waste land, ending at the river Euphrates, because their cattle were increased in number in the land of Gilead.

10And in the days of Saul they made war on the Hagarites, and overcame them; and they put up their tents through all the land east of Gilead.

11And the sons of Gad were living opposite to them, in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:

12Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai and Shaphat in Bashan;

13And their brothers, the men of their family: Michael and Meshullam and Sheba and Jorai and Jacan and Zia and Eber, seven of them.

14These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

15Ahi, the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, head of their families.

16And they were living in Gilead in Bashan, in its small towns and in all the grass-land of Sirion as far as its limits.

17All these were listed under the names of their families, in the time of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the time of Jeroboam, king of Israel.

18There were forty-four thousand, seven hundred and sixty of the sons of Reuben and of the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, all strong men, expert in the use of the body-cover, the sword, and the bow, and in the art of war, all able to take up arms.

19And they went to war against the Hagarites, with Jetur and Naphish and Nodab.

20And they were helped against them, so that the Hagarites, and those with them, were given into their power. For they sent up prayers to God in the fight, and he gave ear to them, because they put their faith in him.

21And they took away their cattle: fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.

22And a very great number went to their death, because the war was God's purpose. And they went on living in their place till they were taken away as prisoners.

23And the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh were living in the land: and their numbers were increased till all the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir and the mountain Hermon was theirs.

24And these were the heads of their families: Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, men of war, of great name, heads of families.

25And they did evil against the God of their fathers, worshipping the gods of the people of the land, whom God had put to destruction before them.

26And the God of Israel put an impulse into the heart of Pul, king of Assyria, and of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, who took them away as prisoners, all the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to Halah and Habor and Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

I Chronicles 6

1The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

2And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

3And the sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

4Eleazar was the father of Phinehas; Phinehas was the father of Abishua;

5And Abishua was the father of Bukki, and Bukki was the father of Uzzi,

6And Uzzi was the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah was the father of Meraioth;

7Meraioth was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub,

8And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz,

9And Ahimaaz was the father of Azariah, and Azariah was the father of Johanan,

10And Johanan was the father of Azariah, (he was priest in the house which Solomon put up in Jerusalem:)

11And Azariah was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub,

12And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Shallum,

13And Shallum was the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah was the father of Azariah,

14And Azariah was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah was the father of Jehozadak;

15And Jehozadak went as a prisoner when the Lord took away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

16The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

17And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

18And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

19The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers.

20Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

21Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.

22The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

23Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,

24Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.

25And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.

26Elkanah his son: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

27Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son, Samuel his son.

28And the sons of Samuel: the oldest Joel, and the second Abiah.

29The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,

30Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

31And these are those whom David made responsible for the music in the house of the Lord, after the ark had rest.

32They gave worship with songs before the House of the Tent of meeting, till Solomon put up the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they took their places for their work in their regular order.

33And these are those who did this work, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman, who made melody, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

34The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

35The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

36The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

37The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

38The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

39And his brother Asaph, whose place was at his right hand, Asaph, the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

40The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,

41The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

42The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,

43The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

44And on the left their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan, the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

45The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,

46The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,

47The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

48And their brothers the Levites were responsible for all the work of the Tent of the house of God.

49But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burned offering, and on the altar of perfume, for all the work of the most holy place, and to take away the sin of Israel, doing everything ordered by Moses, the servant of God.

50And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

51Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

52Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

53Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

54Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection,

55To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;

56But the open country of the town, and the small places round it, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

57And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts,

58And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts,

59And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts;

60And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns.

61And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.

62And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen towns.

63And to the sons of Merari, by their families, twelve towns were given by the Lord's decision, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.

64And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts.

65And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given.

66And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given towns by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of Ephraim.

67And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts,

68And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its outskirts,

69And Aijalon with its outskirts, and Gath-rimmon with its outskirts;

70And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its outskirts, and Bileam with its outskirts, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.

71To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its outskirts, and Ashtaroth with its outskirts;

72And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its outskirts, and Daberath with its outskirts,

73And Ramoth with its outskirts, and Anem with its outskirts;

74And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its outskirts, and Abdon with its outskirts,

75And Hukok with its outskirts, and Rehob with its outskirts;

76And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its outskirts, and Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim with its outskirts.

77To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its outskirts, Tabor with its outskirts;

78And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the waste land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its outskirts,

79And Kedemoth with its outskirts, and Mephaath with its outskirts;

80And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its outskirts, and Mahanaim with its outskirts,

81And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its outskirts.

I Chronicles 7

1And of the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah, Jashub and Shimron, four.

2And the sons of Tola: Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Ibsam and Shemuel, heads of their families; they were men of war; in the record of their generations their number in the time of David was twenty-two thousand, six hundred.

3And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah; and the sons of Izrahiah: Michael and Obadiah and Joel and Isshiah, five; all of them chiefs.

4And with them, recorded in generations by their families, were bands of fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for they had a great number of wives and sons.

5And there were recorded among all the families of Issachar, great men of war, eighty-seven thousand.

6The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.

7And the sons of Bela: Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri, five; heads of their families, great men of war; there were twenty-two thousand and thirty-four of them recorded by their families.

8And the sons of Becher: Zemirah and Joash and Eliezer and Elioenai and Omri and Jerimoth and Abijah and Anathoth and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

9And they were recorded by their generations, heads of their families, great men of war, twenty thousand, two hundred.

10And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush and Benjamin and Ehud and Chenaanah and Zethan and Tarshish and Ahishahar.

11All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their families, seventeen thousand, two hundred men of war, able to go out with the army for war.

12And Shuppim and Huppim. The sons of Dan, Hushim his son, one.

13The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel and Guni and Jezer and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

14The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean woman: she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead;

15(And Gilead took a wife, whose name was Maacah, and his sister's name was Hammoleketh;) and the name of his brother was Zelophehad, who was the father of daughters.

16And Maacah, the wife of Gilead, gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Peresh; and his brother was named Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

17And the son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir the son of Manasseh.

18And his sister Hammoleketh was the mother of Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah.

19And the sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam.

20And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,

21And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath, who had been living in the land from their birth, put to death, because they came down to take away their cattle.

22And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort.

23After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.

24And his daughter was Sheerah, the builder of Beth-horon the lower and the higher, and Uzzen-sheerah.

25And Rephah was his son, and Resheph; his son was Telah, and his son was Tahan;

26Ladan was his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

27Nun his son, Joshua his son.

28Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and its daughter-towns, and Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west, with its daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its daughter-towns as far as Azzah and its daughter-towns;

29And by the limits of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, with their daughter-towns. In these the children of Joseph, the son of Israel, were living.

30The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah, their sister.

31And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

32And Heber was the father of Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua, their sister.

33And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet.

34And the sons of Shomer: Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram.

35And the sons of Hotham, his brother: Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal.

36The sons of Zophah: Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri and Imrah,

37Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera.

38And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara.

39And the sons of Ulla: Arah and Hanniel and Rizia.

40All these were the children of Asher, heads of their families, specially strong men of war, chiefs of the rulers. They were recorded in the army for war, twenty-six thousand men in number.

I Chronicles 8

1And Benjamin was the father of Bela his oldest son, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,

2Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

3And Bela had sons, Addar and Gera, the father of Ehud,

4And Abishua and Naaman and Ahoah

5And Gera and Shephuphan and Huram.

6And these are the sons of Ehud, heads of families of those living in Geba: Iglaam and Alemeth

7And Naaman and Ahijah and Gera; and Iglaam was the father of Uzza and Ahihud.

8And Shaharaim became the father of children in the country of the Moabites after driving out Hushim and Beerah his wives;

9And by Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malcam.

10And Jeuz and Shachia and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of families.

11And Hushim became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.

12And the sons of Elpaal: Eber and Misham and Shemed (he was the builder of Ono and Lod and their daughter-towns);

13And Beriah and Shema, who were heads of the families of those who were living in Aijalon, who put to flight the people living in Gath;

14And their brothers Shashak and Jeremoth.

15And Zebadiah and Arad and Eder

16And Michael and Ishpah and Joha, the sons of Beriah;

17And Zebadiah and Meshullam and Hizki and Heber

18And Ishmerai and Izliah and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;

19And Jakim and Zichri and Zabdi

20And Elienai and Zillethai and Eliel

21And Adaiah and Beraiah and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei;

22And Ishpan and Eber and Eliel

23And Abdon and Zichri and Hanan

24And Hananiah and Elam and Anathothijah

25And Iphdeiah and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;

26And Shamsherai and Shehariah and Athaliah

27And Jaareshiah and Elijah and Zichri, the sons of Jeremoth.

28These were heads of families in their generations; chief men: these were living in Jerusalem.

29And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah;

30And his oldest son Abdon, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Ner and Nadab

31And Gedor and Ahio and Zechariah and Mikloth.

32And Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. And they were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.

33And Ner was the father of Abner, and Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and Abinadab and Eshbaal.

34And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.

35And the sons of Micah: Pithon and Melech and Tarea and Ahaz.

36And Ahaz was the father of Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah was the father of Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of Moza;

37And Moza was the father of Binea: Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son;

38And Azel had five sons, whose names are: Azrikam, his oldest, and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

39And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his oldest son, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

40And the sons of Ulam were men of war, bowmen, and had a great number of sons and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these were the sons of Benjamin.

I Chronicles 9

1So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin.

2Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.

3And in Jerusalem there were living some of the sons of Judah, and of Benjamin, and of Ephraim and Manasseh;

4Uthai, the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the sons of Perez, the son of Judah.

5And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the oldest, and his sons.

6And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred and ninety.

7And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, Judah, the son of Hassenuah,

8And Ibneiah, the son of Jeroham, and Elah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

9And their brothers, in the list of their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of families, listed by the names of their fathers.

10And of the priests: Jedaiah and Jehoiarib and Jachin

11And Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;

12And Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai, the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

13And their brothers, heads of their families, a thousand and seven hundred and sixty: able men, doing the work of the house of God.

14And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

15And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

16And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites.

17And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief.

18Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.

19And Shallum, the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his family, the Korahites, were responsible for everything which had to be done in connection with the order of worship, keepers of the doors of the Tent; their fathers had had the care of the tents of the Lord, being keepers of the doorway.

20In the past Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, had been ruler over them; may the Lord be with him!

21Zechariah, the son of Meshelemiah, was keeper of the door of the Tent of meeting.

22There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was to keep the doorway. These were listed by families in the country places where they were living, whom David and Samuel the seer put in their responsible positions.

23So they and their sons had the care of the doors of the house of the Lord, the house of the Tent, as watchers.

24There were keepers of the doors on the four sides, to the east, west, north, and south.

25And their brothers, in the country places where they were living, were to come in every seven days to be with them from time to time.

26For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God.

27Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning.

28Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in worship, to keep an account of them when they came in and when they were taken out again.

29And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices.

30And some of the sons of the priests were responsible for crushing the spices.

31And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the oldest son of Shallum the Korahite, was responsible for cooking the flat cakes.

32And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were responsible for the holy bread which was put in order before the Lord, to get it ready every Sabbath.

33And these were those who had the ordering of the music and songs, heads of families of the Levites, who were living in the rooms, and were free from other work, for their work went on day and night.

34These were heads of families of the Levites in their generations, chief men; they were living at Jerusalem.

35And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah;

36And Abdon his oldest son, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Ner and Nadab

37And Gedor and Ahio and Zechariah and Mikloth

38Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.

39And Ner was the father of Kish; and Kish was the father of Saul; and Saul was the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and Abinadab and Eshbaal.

40And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.

41And the sons of Micah: Pithon and Melech and Tahrea and Ahaz.

42And Ahaz was the father of Jarah; and Jarah was the father of Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of Moza.

43And Moza was the father of Binea; and Rephaiah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

44And Azel had five sons, whose names are: Azrikam, his oldest son, and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.

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