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.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- 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.
- 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
Cross-references · 13
- 1 Chr 5:25–26But they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and they prostituted themselves with the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.
- Neh 7:64These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
- Neh 7:5Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:
- Ezra 2:59The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
- Jer 52:14–15And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
- Ezra 2:62–63These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
- Matt 1:1–16This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
- Dan 1:2And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.
- 2 Chr 36:9–10Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Luke 3:28–38the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,
- 2 Chr 33:11So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
- Jer 39:9Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.
- 2 Chr 36:18–20who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.
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