1 Chronicles 9:12
Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah; Maasai son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
Sermons
Genealogy of the Returned ExilesF. Whitfield 1 Chronicles 9:1-44
Authority and Ability in the Service of GodW. Clarkson 1 Chronicles 9:11-13
GenealogiesJ.R. Thomson 1 Chronicles 1-9














Whether this Azariah was the high priest or the" second priest" does not seem certain. But the office here ascribed to him is evidently one of great importance, and is suggestive of memorable truths with regard to God's spiritual temple and kingdom.

I. THE TRUE "HOUSE OF GOD" IS SPIRITUAL. The temple at Jerusalem was the emblem of the spiritual house which no man has built - the Church of the Divine Redeemer and Lord. This is composed of faithful and holy natures, as of "lively stones."

II. THIS "HOUSE OF GOD" IS ORDERED AND GOVERNED ACCORDING TO DIVINE WISDOM. This is suggested by the word "ruler. Order is Heaven's first law," and this law is certainly not violated in his most precious and beloved work. God's own wisdom is displayed in his own temple.

III. GOD'S OWN SON IS THE RULER IN HIS OWN HOUSE. No earthly sovereign or ecclesiastical pontiff is the head of the spiritual society in which God's Spirit ever dwells. Christ is the King, the Lord, the Priest; "the Head over all things to his Church."

IV. ALL HUMAN RULERS ARE SUBJECT AND SUBORDINATE TO THE DIVINE LORD. Bishops are overseers, and presbyters are pastors; but they are not lords over God's heritage. They have only authority to declare his will, and to execute his commands; and this trust they fulfil, not for their own honour, but for the order and prosperity of God's house. - T.

Now Benjamin begat Bela his first-born
I. THAT ALLIANCES OFTEN END IN ENTANGLEMENTS AND ENTAIL UNCONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES. Shaharaim went into Moab and there married a Moabitess, having children of her (ver. 8). The names of his sons (ver. 9) were Moabitish — Mezha (see 2 Kings 3:4), Maleham (an idol of Moab; see 1 Kings 11:33 and Jeremiah 49:1, 2). This fact points clearly to the evil influence under which his children came through this matrimonial alliance. If we "make affinity" with those who are not of like mind and like principles with ourselves, we must be prepared for serious spiritual consequences.

II. THAT HUMAN ACTIVITY MAY HAVE VERY LONG RESULTS. Shamed, the son of Elpaal, built two cities; one of them was Led (ver. 12). This is identical with the Lydda of our New Testament (Acts 9:32), and with the modern Ludd. Here we have an instance of the results of one man's activity being witnessed more than thirty centuries after he has been gathered to his fathers. Who can say how far down the stream of time our influence will go?

III. THAT VIOLENCE IS A BAD FOUNDATION OF REST AND POWER. In ver. 13 we learn that, by a noteworthy coincidence, Beriah with Shema "drove away the inhabitants of Gath." In the previous chapter (ver. 21) we read that the inhabitants of Gath slew the sons of Ephraim. Truly "they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." Violence seizes on a neighbour's land, and by violence is itself dispossessed.

IV. THAT IT IS WISE TO STAMP BAD THINGS WITH AN EVIL NAME. Esh-baal (ver. 33) is the Ishbosheth of 2 Samuel 11:21; while Merib-baal (ver. 34) is the Mephibosheth of 2 Samuel 4:4. In these two cases Baal is turned into Bosheth, which signifies shame. Thus, by a simple name, the heathen deity was branded with public reprobation. The evil thing was made to seem the ugly and offensive thing it was. Nothing can be more perilous to the community than the wrapping up of a sin in some pleasant euphemism; e.g., if a daughter has been sinful she should not be called "unfortunate." Vice does not lose half its evil by losing all its grossness. If we label sin with a name that passes current in society, we are co-workers with the tempter himself.

V. THAT FAITHFUL REMEMBRANCE IN THE DAY OF POWER IS AN EXCELLENT GRACE. The line of Jonathan is traced to many generations (ver. 34, etc.). Is not the hand of David here? Is this not a sign that his vow (1 Samuel 20:15)was honourably filled? What we promise as we are rising we should scrupulously discharge when we have attained the summit of our desires. It is the mark of a true man to carry out with generous fulness all that he undertook when he was a long way from the goal and the prize.

VI. THAT THE THOUGHT OF A WORTHY ANCESTRY IS AN HONOURABLE INDUCEMENT TO WELL-DOING. "These dwelt in Jerusalem" (vers. 28-82). When the captives returned from Babylon there was a lack of men to populate the sacred city. In the country were inviting fields waiting for cultivation, while in the city was danger to be dared and civic duty to be discharged. So that "the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerusalem" (Nehemiah 11:2). The fact that their ancestors dwelt in the city would probably operate as a powerful inducement to lead many to offer themselves as citizens, and these would thus be led to serve their country in a very serious crisis. The knowledge of the honourable position taken by our ancestry is a very lawful motive to obedience and aspiration.

People
Abdon, Abinadab, Adaiah, Adiel, Ahaz, Ahiman, Ahio, Ahitub, Akkub, Alemeth, Ammihud, Asa, Asaiah, Asaph, Azariah, Azel, Azmaveth, Azrikam, Bakbakkar, Bani, Benjamin, Benjaminites, Berechiah, Binea, Bocheru, David, Ebiasaph, Elah, Eleasah, Eleazar, Elkanah, Eshbaal, Galal, Gedor, Gibeon, Hanan, Hasenuah, Hashabiah, Hasshub, Heresh, Hilkiah, Hodaviah, Ibneiah, Ibnijah, Immer, Imri, Ishmael, Israelites, Jachin, Jahzerah, Jarah, Jedaiah, Jeduthun, Jehiel, Jehoiarib, Jeiel, Jeroham, Jeuel, Jonathan, Kish, Kohathites, Korah, Korahites, Kore, Levi, Levites, Maacah, Maachah, Maasiai, Malchijah, Malchishua, Manasseh, Mattaniah, Mattithiah, Melech, Meraioth, Merari, Meribbaal, Meshelemiah, Meshillemith, Meshullam, Micah, Michri, Mikloth, Moza, Nadab, Ner, Netophathites, Obadiah, Omri, Pashur, Perez, Pharez, Phinehas, Pithon, Rephaiah, Reuel, Sallu, Samuel, Saul, Shallum, Sheariah, Shemaiah, Shemariah, Shephathiah, Shephatiah, Shilonites, Tahrea, Talmon, Uthai, Uzzi, Zadok, Zechariah, Zerah, Zichri, Zimri, Zur
Places
Babylon, Gibeon, Jerusalem
Topics
Adaiah, Adai'ah, Adiel, Ad'i-el, Immer, Jahzerah, Jah'zerah, Jeroham, Jero'ham, Maasai, Ma'asai, Maasiai, Malchijah, Malchi'jah, Malkijah, Masai, Meshillemith, Meshil'lemith, Meshullam, Meshul'lam, Pashhur, Pashur
Outline
1. The original of Israel and Judah's genealogies
2. The Israelites
10. The priests
14. and the Levites, with Nethinims, who dwelt in Jerusalem
27. The charge of certain Levites
35. The stock of Saul and Jonathan

Dictionary of Bible Themes
1 Chronicles 9:3-22

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The King.
We have now to turn and see the sudden change of fortune which lifted the exile to a throne. The heavy cloud which had brooded so long over the doomed king broke in lightning crash on the disastrous field of Gilboa. Where is there a sadder and more solemn story of the fate of a soul which makes shipwreck "of faith and of a good conscience," than that awful page which tells how, godless, wretched, mad with despair and measureless pride, he flung himself on his bloody sword, and died a suicide's death,
Alexander Maclaren—The Life of David

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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