1 Chronicles 5 Footnotes

5:6 Tiglath-pileser III reigned from 745–727 BC; see 2Kg 15:29.

5:7 Because land was originally apportioned on the basis of tribe and clan, the term “families” could also include the idea of “neighborhood,” since family and geography are so closely associated in Israel.

5:17 Jotham reigned 742–735 BC. Jeroboam reigned 786– 746 BC.

5:25 While acknowledging the fact that the nations worshiped gods other than Yahweh, this statement “gods of the nations” was not an acknowledgment of their reality. The Chronicler explicitly denied this (2Ch 32:19). We see here a partial statement of the Chronicler’s historiography: Israel’s exile was a direct consequence of faithlessness to God. Restoration of the nation would be predicated upon the opposite attitude of the returnees: faithfulness to God’s word and law; most importantly, turning away from the worship of any other deity.