Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.
The verse traces Ahi as son of Abdiel and grandson of Guni and marks him as chief over his fathers' house. The name Abdiel means servant of God in Hebrew. The verse stands among the extended name lists that fill page after page through the first eight chapters of 1 Chronicles, lists seldom taken up in family worship or private devotion and whose worth is not readily seen.
It stands within the fifth chapter of 1 Chronicles. As part of the genealogies of Chronicles it kept hereditary descent that was required after the exile for assigning land and upholding temple service. As a genealogy it displays the care given to keeping the records of God's people. It is fully inspired, even though not equally interesting and valuable to every person in every circumstance. It is placed there for all classes of people, to engage scholars with deep things and to serve the study of ethnology by recording the origin and distribution of races, while pearls of spiritual truth are scattered through so that those pursuing only human knowledge encounter what is divine. Such records show that God keeps a faithful record of each individual soul.
The verse traces Ahi as son of Abdiel and grandson of Guni and marks him as chief over his fathers' house. The name Abdiel means servant of God in Hebrew. The verse stands among the extended name lists that fill page after page through the first eight chapters of 1 Chronicles, lists seldom taken up in family worship or private devotion and whose worth is not readily seen.
It stands within the fifth chapter of 1 Chronicles. As part of the genealogies of Chronicles it kept hereditary descent that was required after the exile for assigning land and upholding temple service. As a genealogy it displays the care given to keeping the records of God's people. It is fully inspired, even though not equally interesting and valuable to every person in every circumstance. It is placed there for all classes of people, to engage scholars with deep things and to serve the study of ethnology by recording the origin and distribution of races, while pearls of spiritual truth are scattered through so that those pursuing only human knowledge encounter what is divine. Such records show that God keeps a faithful record of each individual soul.