THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
It appears that the composition of this text likely occurred following the return from Babylon, as it refers to the exile and provides the rationale behind it.
1 Chronicles 9:1Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And all Israel was numbered: and the sum of them was written in the book of the kings of Israel, and Juda: and they were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ הִתְיַחְשׂ֔וּ וְהִנָּ֣ם כְּתוּבִ֔ים עַל־סֵ֖פֶר מַלְכֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וִיהוּדָ֛ה הָגְל֥וּ לְבָבֶ֖ל בְּמַעֲלָֽם׃
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Chr 5:25But they forsook the God of their fathers, and went astray after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
- 1 Chr 5:26And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Phul king of the Assyrians. and the spirit of Thelgathphalnasar king of Assur: and he carried away Ruben, and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses, and brought them to Lahela, and to Habor, and to Ara, and to the river of Gozan, unto this day.
- Neh 7:64These sought their writing in the record, and found it not: and they were cast out of the priesthood.
- Ezra 2:59And these are they that came up from Thelmela, Thelharsa, Cherub, and Adon, and Emer. And they could not shew the house of their fathers and their seed, whether they were of Israel.
- Jer 52:14And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the general broke down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.
- Jer 52:15But Nabuzardan the general carried away captives some of the poor people, and of the rest of the common sort who remained in the city, and of the fugitives that were fled over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
- Ezra 2:62These sought the writing of their genealogy, and found it not, and they were cast out of the priesthood.
- Ezra 2:63And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holy of holies, till there arose a priest learned and perfect.