Day 256 - 1 Chronicles 5-6

Why do we need such extensive genealogies that occupy the first NINE chapters of 1 Chronicles? By Fr Tadros Malaty (Part 3/4)

14. Going through these chapters, we encounter people along the generations, through whom we would get lessons for the edification of our souls, and would learn from some of them how they came to be great in the sight of God, and the sight of the heavenly creatures, through the purity of their hearts, and their faithfulness in the few that was within their hands, and now that we have more talents within ours; … Some of whom have fallen to depths, but with the grace of God, they rose up again, grew, and became righteous. We encounter ‘Jabez’ who, even his name refers to being sorrowful and suffering; yet he overcame his name, and “became the most honorable of his family”.(4: 9) We encounter Abraham whose name was chan ...