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.
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.
- 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 5:25–26And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
- Neh 7:64These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
- Neh 7:5And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,
- Ezra 2:59And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
- Jer 52:14–15And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
- Ezra 2:62–63These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
- Matt 1:1–16The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
- Dan 1:2And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried 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: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Luke 3:28–38Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er,
- 2 Chr 33:11Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
- Jer 39:9Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.
- 2 Chr 36:18–20And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
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