Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
1 Chronicles 5:6 belongs to the genealogical record of 1 Chronicles, to the list of the Reubenites within the long lists of names in the first eight chapters. Those genealogical lists are seldom read in family worship or private devotion, their value is hard to see, and even names that may seem uninviting are carefully recorded. The genealogical records preserve details about individuals, their place among God's people, and the identity of Israel's tribes, keeping the records of God's children.
The verse is fully inspired even though not all of the Bible is equally interesting and valuable to all persons and under all circumstances. God put such genealogies in the Bible for all classes, giving plain manna for the most illiterate and deep things to attract scholars. They record the origin and distribution of races for those who would study ethnology, and scatter pearls of spiritual truth along the way by which He leads them as scientists so that many seeking only human knowledge find that which is divine.
The verse names Tiglath-Pileser as the Assyrian king who carried Beerah, a prince of the Reubenites, into captivity, and it stands as evidence of his reign and campaigns against Israel.
1 Chronicles 5:6 belongs to the genealogical record of 1 Chronicles, to the list of the Reubenites within the long lists of names in the first eight chapters. Those genealogical lists are seldom read in family worship or private devotion, their value is hard to see, and even names that may seem uninviting are carefully recorded. The genealogical records preserve details about individuals, their place among God's people, and the identity of Israel's tribes, keeping the records of God's children.
The verse is fully inspired even though not all of the Bible is equally interesting and valuable to all persons and under all circumstances. God put such genealogies in the Bible for all classes, giving plain manna for the most illiterate and deep things to attract scholars. They record the origin and distribution of races for those who would study ethnology, and scatter pearls of spiritual truth along the way by which He leads them as scientists so that many seeking only human knowledge find that which is divine.
The verse names Tiglath-Pileser as the Assyrian king who carried Beerah, a prince of the Reubenites, into captivity, and it stands as evidence of his reign and campaigns against Israel.