In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 8, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In 1 Chronicles 8 is the eighth of 9 entire chapters of genealogies of the people of God and Israel right through to the exile.

Weirdly this is the second time we have a genealogy of Benjamin - the one in 7:7-12 above is conjectured to be possibly Zebulun because it was a missing tribe an the genealogy for Benjamin here seems to match the names of people, which the previous one doesn’t. One thing all these lists reveal to us is that there is a genuine history going on here.

Why would anyone make up 9 entire chapters of genealogies, including countless names and places that we know nothing of, for no reason. Simply that these represent many events and many dealings, and also how little we know about these times. It gives a very a ...