Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

At this point, you may be wondering if Chronicles is only genealogies.

Don't worry, it's not.

We've only got one more day of those coming up and that day's reading also jumps into the narrative part of the book.

So this is our last day of straight genealogies.

In First Chronicles, that is.

I want to fulfill a promise I made to you a few days ago.

I promised to tell you the purpose of all these genealogies. I didn't want to

spoil it for those of you who haven't heard this story before, but if you were paying close

attention to today's reading, you picked up on part of the story that gives it away.

V verse 15 says,

Jehosadak went into exile

when the Lord sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile

by the hand of Nebuchinezer. So the spoiler that may come as no surprise is

that Israel doesn't keep the covenant and God eventually raises up an enemy to

carry them off into exile back out of the promised land. But don't worry, God's not casting them off forever.

Remember that he's already told us that this is how things will go and he says it's all part of his plan to bring them to

repentance and to restore all things.

So they're in exile for a long time.

But then they repent and get to come back to the promise land.

And that's when these genealogies come in super handy.

Because they really need to know who is from which tribe,

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