Monday, June 11, 2007


I was reading 1 Chronicles yesterday. Well, actually I was listening to 1 Chronicles while I was driving. And I thought, "You know, it'd be really nice to have a family tree that makes sense of all these genelogies." And Voila! I found one today online.

Check out this biblical family tree by Jim Belote. It must have taken forever to do this. But it sorts through all the complications of the Old Testament genealogies. It includes complex diagrams for polygamous relationships, indications of firstborn where appropriate and it is color-coded for kings and priests. Take a look at it next time you try to read 1 Chronicles!

Update:
I found more genealogical charts which specfically lay out the genealogies of the first part of 1 Chronicles. These charts are more clear than the one on the website listed above and they are directly related to 1 Chr rather than a general biblical genealogy. Yet the charts are not connected to one another, so distant connections are harder to make. They are in Myers, Jacob M. II Chronicles. Anchor Bible, vol. 13. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965.

1 Comments:

Anonymous drday57 said...

I have a website that has all the information that you were writing about http://www.biblefamilytree.com. You will find every person mentioned in the Bible and their biographies, Bible cross reference, Hebrew meanings of their names, their tribe, their contemporaries in Ancient History, dates, maps and cities and places mentioned in the Bible. Check this out, it is a fantastic study Tool.

January 06, 2008 12:26 AM  

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