Today, I am reading and commenting on  1 Chronicles 2-4.

I don’t really know what to do with this passage, but I will write about a few things which I found noteworthy.  I have made note before that Joab, Abishai, and Asahel were King David’s nephews by his sister Zeruiah, and Amasa was David’s nephew by another sister named Abigail.  I mention this because Joab killed Amasa when David had offered Amasa Joab’s job as commander of his army.  I have written about all of that previously.  However, what I noticed today is that Amasa’s father is mentioned in this passage, but no father is mentioned for Joab and his brothers.  I am not sure what to make of those facts, but I want to think about whether or not the failure to mention a father for Joab and his brothers has any significance.  In addition I want to think about whether the significance of Amasa’s father is that he was known, or that he was an Ishmaelite, rather than an Israelite?  This passage also implies that the Line of David after the Exile consisted solely of the descendants of Jehoiachin.  I am not entirely sure why that is important, but its presence here means that it has significance.  The list of descendants of Jehoiachin also gives us an idea about when this book was compiled, which was a generation or three after Zerubbabel, who was governor of Jerusalem after the Israelites returned from Exile.

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