While this part of the Bible doesn’t
make for interesting reading, it does help to solidify that these things
happened and these were real people in earth’s history. The specifics of these nine chapters show the
research and record keeping care involved in compiling the Bible together. These family lines were specifically for the
priests and the kings. The priests came
from the line of Levi and the kings from the line of Judah. It’s an important theme because Jesus will be
both our high priest and our king.
These chapters set up the point of 1
and 2 Chronicles—to highlight the story of David and then the collapse of
Jerusalem. To do so, the writer of 1 and
2 Chronicles felt it necessary to see how it fit into the entire history of the
world beginning with Adam.