1 Chronicles 9:1 Meaning and Explanation
“So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The long genealogies are summed up: all Israel was recorded by lineage, and the exile to Babylon is named as the consequence of the nation's sin.
What Does 1 Chronicles 9:1 Mean?
These words close the great sweep of names that has run since Adam and open the account of those who returned from captivity. The chronicler reminds his readers that every family had been carefully recorded, and that the whole nation had been carried to Babylon because of its faithlessness.
The verse holds two truths together without softening either. God knows His people by name and keeps a faithful record of them, yet sin carries real and weighty consequences. The exile was not an accident of history but the harvest of long disobedience. Even so, the very fact that the names survive is a quiet promise: the LORD had not forgotten His people, and a remnant would come home.
1 Chronicles 9:1 in the Original Language
gola (גּוֹלָה), 'carried away' -- the exile, the company taken captive into a distant land.
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What does 1 Chronicles 9:1 mean?
The long genealogies are summed up: all Israel was recorded by lineage, and the exile to Babylon is named as the consequence of the nation's sin.