This verse belongs to the genealogical records of ancestry in 1 Chronicles. Within those genealogies it names Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema among the descendants. Its list belongs to the records God directed His people to keep.
It was included in Scripture by the direction of God's Spirit. Such records of ancestry helped establish hereditary claims after the exile. Accurate preservation of this genealogy was necessary to the development and certainty of the gospel.
Such genealogical lists record the origin and distribution of races and can interest students of ethnology. These genealogies show that God is particular and that a faithful record of every soul is kept in the books of heaven.
This verse belongs to the genealogical records of ancestry in 1 Chronicles. Within those genealogies it names Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema among the descendants. Its list belongs to the records God directed His people to keep.
It was included in Scripture by the direction of God's Spirit. Such records of ancestry helped establish hereditary claims after the exile. Accurate preservation of this genealogy was necessary to the development and certainty of the gospel.
Such genealogical lists record the origin and distribution of races and can interest students of ethnology. These genealogies show that God is particular and that a faithful record of every soul is kept in the books of heaven.