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1 Crônicas 1

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1Adão, Seth, Enos,

2Canan, Mahalaleel, Jared,

3Henoch, Methusalah, Lamech,

4Noé, Sem, Cão, e Japhet.

5Os filhos de Japhet foram: Gomer, e Magog, e Madai, e Javan, e Tubal, e Mesech, e Tiras.

6E os filhos de Gomer: Asquenaz, e Riphat, e Togarma.

7E os filhos de Javan: Elisa, e Tarsis, e Chittim, e Dodanim.

8Os filhos de Cão: Cus, e Mitsraim, e Put e Canaan.

9E os filhos de Cus eram Seba, e Havila, e Sabta, e Raema, e Sabtecha: e os filhos de Raema eram Seba e Dedan.

10E Cus gerou a Nemrod, que começou a ser poderoso na terra.

11E Mitsraim gerou aos ludeos, e aos anameos, e aos lehabeos, e aos naphtuheos,

12E aos pathruseos, e aos casluchros (dos quaes procederam os philisteos), e aos caftoreos.

13E Canaan gerou a Sidon, seu primogenito, e a Het,

14E aos jebuseos, e aos amorrheos, e aos girgaseos,

15E aos heveos, e aos arkeos, e aos sineos,

16E aos arvadeos, e aos zemareos, e aos hamatheos.

17E foram os filhos de Sem: Elam, e Assur, e Arphaxad, e Lud, e Aram, e Uz, e Hul, e Gether, e Mesech.

18E Arphaxad gerou a Selah: e Selah gerou a Heber.

19E a Heber nasceram dois filhos: o nome d'um foi Peleg, porquanto nos seus dias se repartiu a terra, e o nome de seu irmão era Joktan.

20E Joktan gerou a Almodad, e a Seleph, e a Hasarmaveth, e a Jarah,

21E a Hadoram, e a Husal, e a Dikla,

22E a Ebad, e a Abimael, e a Seba,

23E a Ophir, e a Havila, e a Jobab: todos estes foram filhos de Joktan.

24Sem, Arphaxad, Selah,

25Heber, Peleg, Rehu,

26Serug, Nahor, Thare,

27Abrão, que é Abrahão.

28Os filhos de Abrahão foram Isaac e Ishmael.

29Estas são as suas gerações: o primogenito de Ishmael foi Nebaioth, e Kedar, e Adbeel, e Mibsam,

30Misma, e Duma, e Masca, Hadar e Tema,

31Jetur, e Naphis e Kedma: estes foram os filhos de Ishmael.

32Quanto aos filhos de Ketura, concubina de Abrahão, esta pariu a Zimran, e a Joksan, e a Medan, e a Midian, e a Jisbak, e a Suah: e os filhos de Joksan foram Seba e Dedan.

33E os filhos de Midian: Epha, e Epher, e Hanoch, e Abidah, e Eldah: todos estes foram filhos de Ketura.

34Abrahão pois gerou a Isaac: e foram os filhos de Isaac Esaú e Israel.

35Os filhos de Esaú: Eliphaz, Reuel, e Jehus, e Jalam, e Corah.

36Os filhos de Eliphaz: Teman, e Omar, e Zephi, e Gaetam, e Quenaz, e Timna, e Amalek.

37Os filhos de Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Samma, e Missa.

38E os filhos de Seir: Lothan, e Sobal, e Zibeon, e Ana, e Dison, e Eser, e Disan.

39E os filhos de Lothan: Hori e Homam; e a irmã de Lothan foi Timna.

40Os filhos de Sobal eram Alian, e Manahath, e Ebel, Sephi e Onam: e os filhos de Zibeon eram Aya e Ana.

41Os filhos de Ana foram Dison: e os filhos de Dison foram Hamran, e Esban, e Ithran, e Cheran.

42Os filhos de Eser eram Bilhan, e Zaavan, e Jaakan: os filhos de Disan eram Uz e Aran.

43E estes são os reis que reinaram na terra d'Edom, antes que reinasse rei sobre os filhos d'Israel: Bela, filho de Beor; e era o nome da sua cidade Dinhaba.

44E morreu Bela, e reinou em seu logar Jobab, filho de Zerah, de Bosra.

45E morreu Jobab, e reinou em seu logar Husam, da terra dos temanitas.

46E morreu Husam, e reinou em seu logar Hadad, filho de Bedad: este feriu os midianitas no campo de Moab; e era o nome da sua cidade Avith.

47E morreu Hadad, e reinou em seu logar Samla, de Masreka.

48E morreu Samla, e reinou em seu logar Saul, de Rehoboth, junto ao rio.

49E morreu Saul, e reinou em seu logar Baal-hanan, filho de Acbor.

50E, morrendo Baal-hanan, Hadad reinou em seu logar; e era o nome da sua cidade Pae: e o nome de sua mulher era Mehetabeel, filha de Matred, a filha de Mezahab.

51E, morrendo Hadad, foram principes em Edom o principe Timna, o principe Alya, o principe Jetheth,

52O principe Aholibama, o principe Ela, o principe Pinon,

53O principe Quenaz, o principe Teman, o principe Mibzar,

54O principe Magdiel, o principe Iram: estes foram os principes d'Edom.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

The book begins with an extensive genealogy running from Adam to Abraham and his descendants, including the sons of Ishmael, the descendants of Esau, and the kings who ruled Edom before there was a king in Israel.

Explanation

1 Chronicles was written after the Babylonian exile, for a people who needed to reconnect their identity with the whole history that preceded the national disaster they had suffered. Beginning with Adam himself is a theological statement: the people of Israel are not an accident of history, but part of a plan that reaches back to creation. These genealogies, which look like mere lists of names, served the practical purpose of establishing inheritance rights, priestly lineage, and tribal identity — essential for reorganizing the nation after the return from exile. Today, this chapter reminds us that our personal story is tied to something far greater than we can see on our own.

Fun facts

  • 1 and 2 Chronicles originally formed a single book in Hebrew, and were divided into two parts only in the Greek translation (the Septuagint), because of the length of the text.
  • The mention of the kings of Edom before there was a king in Israel is almost identical to the list found in Genesis 36, showing how the chronicler drew on older written sources to compile his record.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. 1 Crônicas 1:1Chronicles retells the story already found in Samuel and Kings, but with a different purpose: it is not writing a biography of kings, it is proving that the people who returned from exile are still the same people, tied to this whole line since Adam. That is why the book starts so far back, at the origin of all humanity, even before reaching Abraham and Israel. Since the focus shifts, the numbers and some names sometimes do not match exactly what is in Samuel and Kings — that is not an error, it is a different angle on the same story.
  2. 1 Crônicas 1:2Three more links in the line running from Adam to Noah — distant ancestors who appear in Genesis 5, listed here quickly, without a story, just to keep the chain unbroken since creation.
  3. 1 Crônicas 1:3The list continues through Enoch, the man who “walked with God” in Genesis, and Methuselah, the oldest grandfather in the Bible, two steps before reaching Noah.
  4. 1 Crônicas 1:4It arrives at Noah and the three sons who survive the flood — from here all the humanity in the rest of the chapter will spread out, each son pulling a different branch of the list.
  5. 1 Crônicas 1:5Here begins the branch of Japheth, Noah’s son whose descendants become peoples of the north and the Aegean Sea. This branch does not lead to Israel, but Chronicles records it all the same, because all of humanity is rooted here.
  6. 1 Crônicas 1:6Grandsons of Japheth through Gomer’s line — names of ancient peoples from the region of Anatolia, one more branch of the tree that does not appear again in the rest of the book.
  7. 1 Crônicas 1:7Javan is the root of the name of the Greeks in the ancient world, and Kittim and Dodanim point to Cyprus and the islands of the Mediterranean — the chronicler is mapping the known world, not just the family of Israel.
  8. 1 Crônicas 1:8Now the branch of Ham, another son of Noah: Cush, Mizraim (Egypt), Put, and Canaan. This last name will carry a lot of weight later on, because from him comes the people occupying the land before Israel arrives.
  9. 1 Crônicas 1:9Grandsons of Ham through Cush’s line, peoples linked to the region that would become known as Ethiopia and southern Arabia — more names rounding out the map before the list returns to Nimrod.
  10. 1 Crônicas 1:10In the middle of a list of faceless names, Nimrod gets a line all his own: “he began to be mighty upon the earth,” the first strongman of the Bible, linked in Genesis to the founding of Babel and Nineveh.
  11. 1 Crônicas 1:11The descendants of Egypt (Mizraim) continue, peoples of North Africa — names the first readers might have recognized as neighbors, but that today only show the reach of the list.
  12. 1 Crônicas 1:12In the middle of this Egyptian list an important note appears: it is from the Casluhim that the Philistines come, the people who will fight Israel throughout the book, from Samson to Goliath.
  13. 1 Crônicas 1:13Now the branch of Canaan, son of Ham: first comes Sidon, the city that gives rise to the Phoenicians, and then Heth, father of the Hittites — two peoples Israel will encounter up close in the promised land.
  14. 1 Crônicas 1:14More sons of Canaan: the Jebusites, who own Jerusalem before David takes the city, the Amorites, and the Girgashites — three of the peoples listed as the original inhabitants of Canaan.
  15. 1 Crônicas 1:15The list of Canaanite peoples continues — Hivites, Arkites, Sinites — names that reappear in Joshua as part of the inhabitants of the land Israel must conquer.
  16. 1 Crônicas 1:16The list of Canaan’s descendants closes here: more peoples from the coast of Syria and Lebanon, completing the map of neighbors Israel will meet even before existing as a nation.
  17. 1 Crônicas 1:17After Japheth and Ham, it is Shem’s turn — it is from this “Semitic” line that Abraham and Israel itself will come, which is why the chronicler gives much more attention to this branch than to the other two.
  18. 1 Crônicas 1:18Shem’s line narrows quickly: Arphaxad, Shelah, and then Eber — the name from which the word “Hebrew” probably comes, the same word that will describe Abraham and his descendants.
  19. 1 Crônicas 1:19Eber has two sons who take opposite paths: Peleg, whose name recalls the time when “the earth was divided,” and Joktan, whose descendants the list follows right after.
  20. 1 Crônicas 1:20Here begins the branch of Joktan, Peleg’s brother — sons who will become peoples of southern Arabia, a path the Bible does not follow again after this chapter.
  21. 1 Crônicas 1:21More grandsons of Joktan, names linked to regions of ancient Arabia — the list here is purely geographic, with no story attached to these names anywhere else in the Bible.
  22. 1 Crônicas 1:22The list of Joktan’s sons continues — one more handful of names of Arabian peoples that do not appear again after this chapter.
  23. 1 Crônicas 1:23The list of Joktan closes with Ophir, a region that centuries later becomes famous for the gold that filled Solomon’s treasury. From here the Bible drops this branch and returns to the line that leads to Abraham.
  24. 1 Crônicas 1:24The chronicler steps back and sums up again the straight line from Shem to Abraham, this time without getting sidetracked by the branches that do not matter — the same path as verse 17, just straight to the point.
  25. 1 Crônicas 1:25The direct line continues: Eber, Peleg (the one whose name recalls the earth being divided), and Reu — each name bringing the list closer to Abraham.
  26. 1 Crônicas 1:26Three more links in this straight line — Serug, Nahor, and Terah, who is precisely Abraham’s father. Only one more step remains for the list to reach the patriarch.
  27. 1 Crônicas 1:27The entire list, since Adam, finally arrives here: Abraham. This whole chapter of names exists to prove that he — and through him Israel — is linked without a break to the creation of the world.
  28. 1 Crônicas 1:28Abraham has two sons who open two paths: Ishmael, whose descendants the list follows first, and Isaac, the son of promise, whose line will lead straight to Israel and to David.
  29. 1 Crônicas 1:29Before moving on to Isaac, the chronicler makes room for Ishmael’s descendants — also blessed by God in Genesis, even though he is outside the main line of the promise.
  30. 1 Crônicas 1:30The list of Ishmael’s twelve sons continues, names that tradition links to the Arabian desert tribes that remain Israel’s neighbors throughout biblical history.
  31. 1 Crônicas 1:31The list of Ishmael’s twelve sons closes here. With this record complete, the chronicler’s attention can return to the line of Isaac, which is what the book is really interested in.
  32. 1 Crônicas 1:32After Sarah’s death, Abraham has more sons with Keturah; among the grandsons is Midian, a people who decades later give refuge to Moses fleeing Egypt and later become Israel’s enemy in the time of the judges.
  33. 1 Crônicas 1:33The list of Keturah’s descendants closes here — another branch of Abraham that steps outside the main biblical story, but that the genealogy records all the same, with no ranking among the sons.
  34. 1 Crônicas 1:34The list keeps narrowing: from all of humanity to the sons of Shem, then to Abraham, and now to just the line of Isaac, setting aside Ishmael and the sons of Keturah mentioned earlier. It is this narrowing that matters to the author: showing exactly who “Israel” is and where the right to the land and to the promise the whole book will defend comes from.
  35. 1 Crônicas 1:35Now it is the turn of Isaac’s other son: Esau, Jacob’s twin brother and ancestor of the Edomites. His list comes before Jacob’s because Chronicles usually clears the secondary branch out of the way first.
  36. 1 Crônicas 1:36Grandsons of Esau through Eliphaz’s line — among them Amalek, ancestor of the Amalekites, a people who attack Israel right after the exodus from Egypt and become a constant enemy in the books that follow.
  37. 1 Crônicas 1:37More grandsons of Esau, now through Reuel’s line — four names that close out this part of the Edomite tree without leaving any further story attached to them.
  38. 1 Crônicas 1:38Here the list switches families: Seir is not Esau’s son, he is the chief of the Horites, the people who already lived in that land before the Edomites arrived and mixed with them.
  39. 1 Crônicas 1:39Among the sons of the Horite Lotan appears his sister, Timna — the same name as a concubine of Eliphaz in Genesis, suggesting that Esau’s family and Seir’s family ended up mixing together.
  40. 1 Crônicas 1:40The list of Seir’s descendants continues — more names of Horite clans that, over time, are absorbed by Esau’s descendants in the region that becomes Edom.
  41. 1 Crônicas 1:41One more link in the Horite genealogy — Dishon and his four sons, names that appear only here and in Genesis 36, with no other mention in the Bible.
  42. 1 Crônicas 1:42The list of Seir’s original population closes here — after this point the chapter shifts again, this time to the kings who will govern the land of Edom.
  43. 1 Crônicas 1:43This list of kings of Edom, a neighboring and rival people of Israel, seems out of place in the middle of a genealogy, but it stands there simply as a historical record: it shows Edom already had organized kings before Israel had its first king, Saul. It is the kind of note the chronicler keeps to place events in time, without drawing any conclusion from it.
  44. 1 Crônicas 1:44The succession of the kings of Edom begins, and notice the pattern: the son does not inherit the father’s throne, each new king comes from a different city and family — quite unlike the way Israel chooses a king.
  45. 1 Crônicas 1:45One more king of Edom with no blood tie to the previous one — Husham comes from the land of the Temanites, reinforcing this pattern of succession that passes from family to family.
  46. 1 Crônicas 1:46Hadad is the first of these kings of Edom with a concrete deed on record: he defeated the Midianites in battle in the territory of Moab, on the east side of the Jordan.
  47. 1 Crônicas 1:47Another change of king in Edom, again with no kinship to the previous one — Samlah comes from Masrekah, a city different from the ones before.
  48. 1 Crônicas 1:48This king is named Shaul, the same name as Israel’s first king, but it is only a coincidence — he is an Edomite from Rehoboth, with no connection to Israel’s story.
  49. 1 Crônicas 1:49One more king of Edom on the list, Baal-hanan, son of Achbor — the pattern of kings with no fixed dynasty continues to the end of this list.
  50. 1 Crônicas 1:50The last king on this list, also named Hadad, is the only one whose wife’s name — and even mother-in-law’s name — the text preserves, a rare detail that suggests some special importance for this family.
  51. 1 Crônicas 1:51After this last king, Edom changes system: instead of kings, it comes to be governed by clan chiefs called “princes” — the same shift in political structure recorded in Genesis 36.
  52. 1 Crônicas 1:52The list of princes of Edom continues — each name represents the leadership of a different clan, no longer a unified kingdom as before.
  53. 1 Crônicas 1:53Three more names on the list of clan chiefs of Edom, closing out the political picture of this neighboring people before the chapter turns for good to the story of Israel’s own family.
  54. 1 Crônicas 1:54With the last two names, the list of Edom and the whole of chapter 1 come to an end — a complete map of humanity, from Adam to this point, that will now narrow down to just the line of the twelve tribes of Israel.

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