1 Chronicles
1 Chronicles 1
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Adam, Seth, Enosh,Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, Sabteca. The sons...
1 Chronicles 2
Last Updated: October 10, 2026These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah, which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight; and he killed him.Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and...
1 Chronicles 3
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream...
1 Chronicles 4
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.Penuel was...
1 Chronicles 5
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the...
1 Chronicles 6
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,Abishua became the father of Bukki. Bukki became the father of Uzzi.Uzzi became...
1 Chronicles 7
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah:...
1 Chronicles 8
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud,Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah,Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.These are the sons of Ehud. These are the heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Geba, who were carried captive to Manahath:Naaman, Ahijah, and...
1 Chronicles 9
Last Updated: October 10, 2026So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.In Jerusalem, there lived of...
1 Chronicles 10
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and...
1 Chronicles 11
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. The LORD your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince...
1 Chronicles 12
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow....
1 Chronicles 13
Last Updated: October 10, 2026David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of the LORD our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the...
1 Chronicles 14
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, for his kingdom was highly exalted, for his people Israel’s sake.David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.These...
1 Chronicles 15
Last Updated: October 10, 2026David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For the LORD has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to...
1 Chronicles 16
Last Updated: October 10, 2026They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the LORD’s name.He gave to everyone of Israel, both...
1 Chronicles 17
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When David was living in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I live in a cedar house, but the ark of the LORD’s covenant is in a tent.”Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”That same night, the word of God came to Nathan,...
1 Chronicles 18
Last Updated: October 10, 2026After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.He defeated Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah, toward Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.David took from him...
1 Chronicles 19
Last Updated: October 10, 2026After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children...
1 Chronicles 20
Last Updated: October 10, 2026At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.David took the crown of their king from off his...
1 Chronicles 21
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”Joab said, “May the LORD make his people a hundred times as...
1 Chronicles 22
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then David said, “This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for...
1 Chronicles 23
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.David said, “Of these, twenty-four...
1 Chronicles 24
Last Updated: October 10, 2026These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children; therefore Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their...
1 Chronicles 25
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph,...
1 Chronicles 26
Last Updated: October 10, 2026For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, and Eliehoenai the seventh.Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the...
1 Chronicles 27
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers’ households and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year–of every division were twenty-four thousand.Over...
1 Chronicles 28
Last Updated: October 10, 2026David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even...
1 Chronicles 29
Last Updated: October 10, 2026David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the...