1 Chronicles 1:17

Shem's descendants are introduced; from this line the chosen people and ultimately the Messiah will come.

Cross-references · 18

• Gen 10:22–32The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
• Ezek 32:22Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are all around her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
• Gen 11:10This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
• Jer 25:25and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
• Ps 83:8Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
• Ezra 4:2they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as you do; and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”
• Ezek 27:10Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they showed your beauty.
• Isa 66:19“I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
• Num 24:22–24Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.”
• Isa 21:2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
• Hos 14:3Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
• Num 23:7He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
• Ezek 32:24There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
• Isa 22:6Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
• Isa 11:11It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
• Ezek 27:23Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traffickers.
• Gen 14:1In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,
• Dan 8:2I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.

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