1 Chronicles 1:1-27 to Genesis 10:13-18

1 Chronicles 1:1-27 → Genesis 10:13-18

Quotation

Later text

Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech. The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites. The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth. Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites, the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites. And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber. Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan. And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan. So from Shem came Arphaxad, Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, and Abram (that is, Abraham).

Earlier text

Genesis 10:13-18BSB

Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites, the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites. And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,

Significance

These are parallel genealogical records of the Hamite sub-clans. Genesis 10:13-18 lists the descendants of Mizraim (the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, Pathrusites, Casluhites, and Caphtorites) and of Canaan (Sidon, the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites). 1 Chronicles 1:11-16 reproduces this same list of Hamite peoples nearly verbatim. Notably, the Canaanite peoples listed here are precisely the nations Israel was called to dispossess (cf. Deut 7:1), and the Chronicler's inclusion of this pre-Israelite ethnic landscape for a post-exilic audience serves to remind returned exiles of the territorial claims and the enduring divine promise regarding the land.

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Reference Type

Direct Quotation

Connection Method(s)

Redemptive-Historical Progression — Genesis 10's Hamite-Canaanite roster is carried forward nearly verbatim into the Chronicler's opening register (1 Chr 1:11-16): the nations Israel would later dispossess are re-mapped at the far end of the story so the post-exilic community can locate itself — and the promise-bearing line from Shem through Abraham to David — inside the same advancing history.