1 Chronicles 4:35

Study note

Setting — The narrator records a segment of the genealogical catalog for the tribe of Judah. This verse sits between two adjacent name lists within the broader family records of Judah.

The words — The Hebrew preposition בֶּן־ (ben-) appears three times to mark direct patrilineal descent, linking Jehu to Joshibiah, Seraiah, and Asiel. The name יוֹאֵל (yo'el) literally translates to "Yahweh is God."

The thread — This entry continues the unbroken lineage catalog that runs through 1 Chronicles 4:1–43. The repeated father-to-son structure establishes tribal inheritance patterns that frame the subsequent settlement narratives in the book.

Why it lands — The text demands precise tracking of ancestral connections without editorial explanation. It requires the reader to accept recorded family lines as the foundation for later tribal and territorial claims.

Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.