1 Chronicles 5:3
The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
Sermons
ReubenF. Whitfield 1 Chronicles 5:1-8
The Three Threads of DestinyW. Clarkson 1 Chronicles 5:1-17
On the Genealogical TablesR. Glover 1 Chronicles 1-6
GenealogiesJ.R. Thomson 1 Chronicles 1-9














The tribe of Judah holds the first and most prominent place in these genealogies. Reuben was the firstborn, and Joseph had the birthright; but precedence was given to Judah. This was foretold in the remarkable language in which old Jacob, upon his dying bed, spoke of this one of his sons and the tribe of which he was the progenitor.

I. THE TRIBE OF JUDAH TOOK PRECEDENCE OF ALL. When the tribes were numbered under Moses, that of Judah was found to exceed all the others in number. When the Israelites were organized for the war against the Canaanites, Judah was divinely appointed to be the vanguard of the army. A similar precedence is accorded to the tribe of Judah in this Book of Chronicles.

II. FROM THE TRIBE OF JUDAH SPRANG DAVID AND THE ROYAL HOUSE. Of Israel the Lord chose Judah, and of that tribe the family of Jesse, and of that family the youthful David. The great King of Israel and his glorious son shed a splendour upon the national annals. And when the separation of the kingdoms came about, the kingdom of Judah was distinguished in many ways, both civil and religious, above the sister kingdom of Northern Palestine.

III. The greatest distinction and privilege of Judah was this: FROM THIS TRIBE SPRANG THE MESSIAH. Jesus, the Son of David, was a descendant from Judah. This was the true "Lion of the tribe of Judah."

PRACTICAL LESSONS.

1. Mark the hand of God in family history. Providence raises up one house and sets down another. Families are sometimes selected to fulfil high purposes; and when they are found faithful to their vocation honour is put upon them by him who says, "Them that honour me I will honour."

2. Remember your accountability to God for family advantages. If God has given much, he will require the more. - T.

And they transgressed against the God of their fathers.
I. If we turn to the Book of Kings we shall be surprised to find how the fatal sin of Israel was often of an intellectual kind, as distinguished from the baser iniquities which corrupt and overthrow the soul. There were three instances in which the intellectual sins of the people were conspicuous —

1. In the worship of the holy places.

2. In adoration of the heavenly bodies.

3. In the practice of magic and divination.There we find nothing of adultery, drunkenness, theft, or licentiousness of any kind. There are sins and sins. One man is simply a sinner of the coarse type, a criminal seen and known of all men and cast out by society; another man sins intellectually — that is to say he mentally deposes God, and more or less secretly endeavours to live without Him, never breaking any of the great social commandments, and thereby forfeiting social confidence, yet all the while committing the sin against the Holy Ghost. In this way men write their own bibles, invent their own deities, banish from the mind all the old orthodoxies, and in hidden vanity walk after the council of their own hearts.

(J. Parker, D. D.)

People
Abdiel, Abihail, Ahi, Azaz, Azriel, Beerah, Bela, Buz, Carmi, Eber, Eliel, Enoch, Epher, Gad, Gadites, Gog, Guni, Hagarites, Hagrites, Hanoch, Heber, Hezron, Hodaviah, Huri, Ishi, Jaanai, Jachan, Jahdiel, Jahdo, Jaroah, Jeiel, Jeremiah, Jeroboam, Jeshishai, Jetur, Joel, Jorai, Joseph, Jotham, Manasseh, Meshullam, Micah, Michael, Naphish, Pallu, Phallu, Pul, Reaia, Reaiah, Reuben, Reubenites, Saul, Shapham, Shaphat, Shema, Shemaiah, Shimei, Tilgathpilneser, Zechariah, Zia
Places
Aroer, Assyria, Baal-hermon, Bashan, Beth-baal-meon, Euphrates River, Gilead, Gozan, Habor River, Halah, Hara, Jetur, Mount Hermon, Mount Seir, Naphish, Nebo, Nodab, Salecah, Senir, Sharon
Topics
Carmi, Enoch, Firstborn, First-born, Hanoch, Hezron, Oldest, Pallu, Phallu, Reuben, Sons
Outline
1. Judah and Joseph preferred before Reuben, who forfeited his birthright.
3. Ruben's descendants; some of whom vanquish the Hagarites.
11. The chief men of Gad, and their habitations.
18. Ruben, Gad, and half of Manasseh, obtain a victory over the Hagarites.
23. The habitations and chief men of that half of Manasseh.
25. The captivity of the two tribes and half, for their sins.

Dictionary of Bible Themes
1 Chronicles 5:1-10

     7266   tribes of Israel

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Conclusion
"Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth" (Rev. 19:6). In our Foreword to the Second Edition we acknowledge the need for preserving the balance of Truth. Two things are beyond dispute: God is Sovereign, man is responsible. In this book we have sought to expound the former; in our other works we have frequently pressed the latter. That there is real danger of over-emphasising the one and ignoring the other, we readily admit; yea, history furnishes numerous examples of cases of each. To emphasise
Arthur W. Pink—The Sovereignty of God

Chronicles
The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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