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

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.

Verse 15 says,

Jehoshadac went into exile when the Lord sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile

by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

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 promised land.

And that's when these genealogies come in super handy, because they really need to know

who is from which tribe, so they can go back to the right plot of land. And they need to know who is from which tribe, so they can go back to the right

plot of land. And they need to know who is from the tribe of Judah and specifically the line of

David, because God has appointed that as the line of kings. And they need to know who the

Levites are, according to the clans of the Coethites, and the Maraurites, and the Gershanites,

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