1 Chronicles 9

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Aleppo Codex (10th century), and Codex Leningradensis (1008).[5]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^S; 4th century[lower-alpha 1]), Codex Alexandrinus (A; ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^Q; 6th century).[9]

• 1 Chronicles 9:35–44: 1 Chronicles 8:29–38.[10]

So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.[12]

• "Reckoned": "recorded" or "enrolled".[13]
• "Book of the kings of Israel and Judah": also used in 2 Chronicles 27:7 and 36:8, whereas a factually identical expression, "Book of the kings of Israel", is used in 2 Chronicles 20:34 (cf. 33:18).[4]
• "Carried away to Babylon": reoccurs in 2 Chronicles 36:20.[4]

And the first inhabitants who dwelt in their possessions in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and the Nethinim.[14]

• Cross reference: Nehemiah 11:3
• "The first": refers to the people returning the earliest from exile. Other translations are rendered 'the main, most important residents', 'the first inhabitants from old'.[15] Compared to Nehemiah 11:3, the words/phrases 'province' as well as 'and the descendants of Solomon's servants', are omitted by the Chronicler.[15]

And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;[16]

• "Ephraim, and Manasseh": is a unique information in the Chronicles, implying that some 'residents of the northern kingdom who were loyal to YHWH and repeatedly called upon to find asylum in Judah/Jerusalem on religious grounds' have indeed repeatedly heeded the calls.[15]

And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,[17]

• "Jedaiah": The name of the second of "24 Priestly Divisions" in 1 Chronicles 24.[18] One fragment of Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q325; "Mishmarot D") mentions:

"The beginning of the se[cond] month is [on the si]xth [day] of the course of Jedaiah. On the second of the month is the Sabbath of the course of Harim...."[19]

• "Jehoiarib": The name of the first of "24 Priestly Divisions" in 1 Chronicles 24.[18] In Talmud Arakhin 11b Rabbi Yosei ben Halafta states that when Solomon's Temple was burnt on the ninth of Ab [586 BCE] the 'priestly guard' was of Jehoiarib division, and they were singing Psalm 94, but only to the first half of Psalm 94:23 (until "their own wickedness") before 'the enemies came and overwhelmed them'.[20] Mattathias ben Johanan was a descendant of Jehoiarib according to 1 Maccabees 2:1.[21]
• "Jachin": The name of the twenty-first of "24 Priestly Divisions" in 1 Chronicles 24.[18]

And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.[25]

• "Eshbaal": from Hebrew: meaning "man of Baal", probably the original name of Saul's son that was 'corrected and disfigured' in 2 Samuel 2:8 (etc.) into "Ishbosheth" (meaning "man of shame"), to conceal the 'baal' component (which can be related to the Canaanite god, "Baal"; also the name "Baal" in verse 30 and "Meribbaal" in verse 34[26]).[4] In 1 Samuel 14:49, he is known as "Ishvi".[4][27]

And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begat Micah.[28]

• "Meribbaal": written as "Mephibosheth" in 2 Samuel 4:4.[29]