Today, I am reading and commenting on  1 Chronicles 5-6.

I am not really sure what to write about the genealogies listed here.  I have a few thoughts.  It appears that the lists of descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh listed here were those living in Gilead (east of the Jordan River) when Jeroboam II was king of Israel, the Northern Kingdom.  On the other hand, the descendants of Levi listed appear to include an actual genealogy.  As I understand this passage, it was included by those who compiled it in order to provide a way to identify where those returning from Exile fit in the nation of Israel which the Returned Exiles were trying to build.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.