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1 Chronicles 9:2
1 Chronicles 9:2
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1 Chronicles 9 — Overview1 Chronicles 9 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter intimates to us that one end of recording all these
genealogies was to direct the Jews, now that they had returned out of
captivity, with whom to incorporate and where to reside; for here we
have…1 Chronicles 9 — Overview1 Chronicles 9 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledge1 Chronicles 9:1, The original of Israel and Judah’s genealogies; 1 Chronicles 9:2, The Israelites; 1 Chronicles 9:10, the priests; 1 Chronicles 9:14, and the Levites, with Nethinims, which dwelt in Jerusalem; 1…1 Chronicles 9 — Overview1 Chronicles 9 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThe genealogies of the several tribes being given, according as they were written in the books of the kings of Israel, 1Ch 9:1, an account follows of those who first settled in Jerusalem after their return from the…1 Chronicles 9:1-131 Chronicles 9:1-13 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe first verse looks back upon the foregoing genealogies, and tells us
they were gathered out of the books of the kings of Israel and Judah,
not that which we have in the canon of scripture, but another civil…1 Chronicles 9:21 Chronicles 9:2 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgeam 3468, bc 536
the first: Ezra 2:70; Nehemiah 7:73, Nehemiah 11:3
the Nethinims: Joshua 9:21-27; Ezra 2:43, Ezra 2:58, Ezra 8:20; Nehemiah 7:60, Nehemiah 7:73, Nehemiah 11:3, Nehemiah 11:21