So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.
Parallel translations
- KJV So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
- BSB So all Israel was recorded in the genealogies written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
- NKJV So all Israel was recorded by genealogies, and indeed, they were inscribed in the book of the kings of Israel. But Judah was carried away captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
- NASB So all Israel was enrolled in genealogies; and behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile to Babylon for their infidelity.
- NLT So all Israel was listed in the genealogical records in The Book of the Kings of Israel. The people of Judah were exiled to Babylon because they were unfaithful to the Lord.
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Quick answer
States that all Israel was enrolled by genealogy, then notes Judah's exile to Babylon for unfaithfulness. It pivots from genealogies to the post-exilic community and names sin as the cause of exile.
Overview
This verse closes the long genealogies and introduces the returned remnant. The Chronicler frames the exile theologically: Judah was carried away because of disobedience, not mere political misfortune. By naming faithlessness as the root, he calls the restored community to covenant loyalty. The hope underlying Chronicles is that God preserves and restores His people, a hope fulfilled finally in Christ, who bears His people's sin and brings them home.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Chr 5:25–26They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
- Neh 7:64These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore were they deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
- Neh 7:5My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be listed by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found this written in it:
- Ezra 2:59These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, and their offspring, whether they were of Israel:
- Jer 52:14–15All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.
- Ezra 2:62–63These sought their place among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
- Matt 1:1–16The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
- Dan 1:2The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
- 2 Chr 36:9–10Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
- Luke 3:28–38the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er,
- 2 Chr 33:11Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
- Jer 39:9Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.
- 2 Chr 36:18–20All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
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