1 Chronicles 9:1

_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._ All Israel were reckoned by genealogies. From the beginning of the Hebrew nation, public records were kept, containing a registration of the name of every individual, as well as the tribe and family to which he belonged. "The book of the kings of Israel and Judah" does not refer to the two canonical books that are known in Scripture by that name, but to authenticated copies of those registers, placed under the official care of the sovereigns; and as a great number of the Israelites (1 Chronicles 9:3) took refuge in Judah during the invasion of Shalmaneser, they carried the public records along with them. The genealogies given in the preceding chapters were drawn from the public records in

CHAPTER IX _All Israel reckoned by genealogies_, 1. _The first inhabitants of Jerusalem, after their return from_ _their captivity, who were chiefs of the fathers_, 2-9. _Of the priests_, 10-13; _Levites_, 14-16; _porters, their work, lodgings, c._, 17-29 _other officers_, 30-32; _the singers_, 33, 34. _A repetition of the genealogy of Saul and his sons_, 35-44. NOTES ON CHAP. IX Verse 1 Chronicles 9:1. Were reckoned by genealogie

Rather, “So all Israel were reckoned ... the kings of Israel. And Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their transgressions.”...

EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 9:1 SO ALL ISRAEL WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGIES. The Hebrew verb (חִתְיַחְשׂי) is sufficiently satisfied by the rendering _were enrolled_,_ _or _were registered. _THE BOOK OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH. The book referred to is often styled "The book of the kings of Israel" (2 Chronicles 20:34; 2 Chronicles 33:18); and it is more probable that that is the intended title here, and that the words should follow thus: AND JUDAH WERE CARRIED CAPTIVE TO BABYLON BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS. This the Masoretic accenting dictates, though the Septuagint, Vulgate, an

SO ALL ISRAEL WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGIES,.... Not now by the writer of this book in the preceding Chapter s; for two of the tribes are not reckoned at all, and the rest but in part; but there had been kept an exact account of them: AND, BEHOLD, THEY WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL; not in the canonical book or books of Kings, but in the annals, journals, and diaries, which each king took care to be kept with some exactness, often referred to in the preceding books; out of which this writer, under a divine direction, had taken what was proper to be continued, and had carried the genealogy down to the captivity of the ten tribes; but the genealogy being lost with them, he could proceed no further, nor say anything more concerning them: BUT JUDAH; for so the word should be stopped, and read according to the Hebrew accents: [WHO] WERE CARRIED AWAY TO BABYLON FOR THEIR TR...

7. THE RECORD OF THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM AFTER THE RETURN CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The restoration (1 Chronicles 9:1)_ 2. Different residents in Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 9:3) 3. The priests (1 Chronicles 9:10) 4. The Levites (1 Chronicles 9:14) 5. Porters and Levites; their duties (1 Chronicles 9:17) 6. The house of Saul (1 Chronicles 9:35) All Israel was

PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, often in an incomplete form: Adam to Israel (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 2:2) with the exception of Cain's descendants (Genesis 4:16) the whole material is taken from Genesis 1-36; Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3); David (1 Chronicles 3:1); Judah again, and made up of fragments ...

IN THE BOOK OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH. Not the existing books of Samuel and Kings, but another book, being. collection of matters from them. Referred to in 2Ch 16:11. 2 Chronicles 25:26; 2 Chronicles 27:7. 2Ch 28:26. 2 Chronicles 32:32; 2 Chronicles 35:27; 2 Chronicles 36:8. ISRAEL. Punctuate and read "Israel: and Judah was carried away", &c. TRANSGRESSION. defection. Hebrew. _ma'al_....

_they_were _written in the book_ This book is apparently referred to in 1 Chronicles 5:17. _of Israel and Judah, who were carried away_ R.V. OF ISRAEL: AND JUDAH WAS CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE. The statement that Judah was led captive calls attention to the fact that the list which follows refers to post-exilic times....

SO ALL ISRAEL, &C.— _But all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and behold they were written in the book of the kings of Israel. But Judah were carried away to Babylon for their transgression._ Houbigant. The first clause in this verse is written to give a reason why the genealogies of Israel, that is, of the ten tribes, are omitted; because they were already written in the book of the kings of Israel. Houbigant renders the beginning of the next verse thus: _now they who first returned, every one into the possession of his own city, were,_ &c....