All these were registered by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
Parallel translations
- WEB All these were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
- KJV All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
- BSB All of them were reckoned in the genealogies during the reigns of Jotham king of Judah and Jeroboam king of Israel.
- NASB All of these were enrolled in the genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
- NLT All of these were listed in the genealogical records during the days of King Jotham of Judah and King Jeroboam of Israel.
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These genealogies were recorded in the days of Jotham of Judah and Jeroboam of Israel. It dates the registration of Gad's families.
Overview
The Chronicler notes that these family records were enrolled during the reigns of Jotham of Judah and Jeroboam II of Israel. Dating the census to specific kings lends historical precision to the account. It shows that Israel maintained careful registries of its tribes across the period of the divided monarchy.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- 2 Kgs 15:32In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.
- 2 Kgs 14:28Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kgs 14:16Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Kgs 15:5Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.
- 2 Chr 27:1Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
- 2 Kgs 14:23In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.
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