And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher is a genealogical record listing those three names in a chapter consisting nearly entirely of personal names, within the long lists and tribal genealogies that occupy the opening chapters of 1 Chronicles. Those opening lists are described as the first eight chapters, as the first nine chapters with some interesting matters thrown in, and as chapters 4-19, and they are hard to read and few read them in family worship or private devotions. The book containing the verse stands in the third part of the Jewish arrangement, where Chronicles forms one book called Words or Acts of Days, meaning minutes of events, lists of names, and the like. In the Septuagint it is called by a Greek word meaning Things omitted or passed over, and the common name comes from the Latin title Chronica.
The book gives much more attention to the house of Judah and the priesthood than Kings does, with special care for the genealogy of the tribe of Judah through which Christ came. These family records preserved proof of hereditary descent needed after the exile for assigning land and restoring hereditary duties in temple service. In this way they preserved the records of God's children and the integrity of the tribes.
Many Bible verses are not expressed promises, as this chapter of names illustrates, and the verse shows that the whole Bible is inspired even though it is not all equally interesting and valuable to all persons and under all circumstances. It belongs to the deep things put to interest scholars, recording the origin and distribution of races for men who would study ethnology, with pearls of spiritual truth scattered along the way so that many seeking only human knowledge find what is divine. God made the Bible not for one class only but for all classes, so its gold lies deep like gold in rocks for the capitalist with costly tools rather than placer gold in the sand for hands and pick and shovel. Its place in the recorded genealogies illustrates that God is particular and that a faithful record of every soul is kept in the books of heaven.
And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher is a genealogical record listing those three names in a chapter consisting nearly entirely of personal names, within the long lists and tribal genealogies that occupy the opening chapters of 1 Chronicles. Those opening lists are described as the first eight chapters, as the first nine chapters with some interesting matters thrown in, and as chapters 4-19, and they are hard to read and few read them in family worship or private devotions. The book containing the verse stands in the third part of the Jewish arrangement, where Chronicles forms one book called Words or Acts of Days, meaning minutes of events, lists of names, and the like. In the Septuagint it is called by a Greek word meaning Things omitted or passed over, and the common name comes from the Latin title Chronica.
The book gives much more attention to the house of Judah and the priesthood than Kings does, with special care for the genealogy of the tribe of Judah through which Christ came. These family records preserved proof of hereditary descent needed after the exile for assigning land and restoring hereditary duties in temple service. In this way they preserved the records of God's children and the integrity of the tribes.
Many Bible verses are not expressed promises, as this chapter of names illustrates, and the verse shows that the whole Bible is inspired even though it is not all equally interesting and valuable to all persons and under all circumstances. It belongs to the deep things put to interest scholars, recording the origin and distribution of races for men who would study ethnology, with pearls of spiritual truth scattered along the way so that many seeking only human knowledge find what is divine. God made the Bible not for one class only but for all classes, so its gold lies deep like gold in rocks for the capitalist with costly tools rather than placer gold in the sand for hands and pick and shovel. Its place in the recorded genealogies illustrates that God is particular and that a faithful record of every soul is kept in the books of heaven.