A HANDBOOK ON

1-2 Chronicles

Volumes 1 & 2

by Roger L. Omanson

and John E. Ellington

UBS Handbook Series

Miami, FL

© 2014 by the United Bible Societies

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Quotations from Today’s English Version, © 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992 are used by permission of the copyright owner, the American Bible Society.

Books in the series of UBS Helps for Translators may be ordered from a national Bible Society or from http://thebibletranslator.org.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014957522

ISBN 978-0-8267-0182-4 (set)—ISBN 978-0-8267-0183-1 (vol. 1)—ISBN 978-0-8267-0184-8 (vol. 2)

UBS Handbook Editors

Paul Clarke	1960–1977
Schuyler Brown	1977–1978
Louis Dorn	1978–1998
Donald Slager	1998–

Contents

Volume 1

Preface

Abbreviations Used in This Volume

Hebrew Transliteration Table

Translating 1-2 Chronicles

Part One: Genealogical lists (1 Chr 1:1–9:44)

A. From Adam to Israel (1 Chr 1:1–54)

B. The line of Judah (1 Chr 2:1–55)

C. The line of David (1 Chr 3:1–24)

D. The southern tribes (1 Chr 4:1–43)

E. The tribes east of the Jordan (1 Chr 5:1–26)

F. The descendants of Levi (1 Chr 6:1–81)

G. The northern tribes (1 Chr 7:1–40)

H. More descendants of Benjamin (1 Chr 8:1–40)

I. The Israelites who returned from captivity (1 Chr 9:1–34)

J. The ancestors and descendants of King Saul (1 Chr 9:35–44)

Part Two: The reign of David and the building of the Temple (1 Chr 10:1–29:30)

A. The death of King Saul (1 Chr 10:1–14)

B. The reign of David (1 Chr 11:1–29:30)

Volume 2

Part Three: King Solomon and the building of the Temple (2 Chr 1:1–9:31)

A. The early years (2 Chr 1:1–17)

B. The Temple is built (2 Chr 2:1–7:10)

C. The later years (2 Chr 7:11–9:31)

Part Four: The kingdom of Judah (2 Chr 10:1–36:23)

A. The revolt of the northern tribes (2 Chr 10:1–19)

B. The kings of Judah (2 Chr 11:1–36:12)

C. The fall of Jerusalem (2 Chr 36:13–21)

D. The southern tribes (2 Chr 36:22–23)

Appendix 1: Display of 1 Chronicles 1:1–42

Appendix 2: Translating Names and Genealogies in 1 Chronicles

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

Preface

A Handbook on 1-2 Chronicles is part of the ubs Handbook Series. This is a series of “Helps for Translators” that present each book of the Bible from the unique perspective of Bible translators. This Handbook provides information about the books of 1-2 Chronicles that is especially important in helping translators and students of the Bible understand these two books as they have come to us.

The authors of this Handbook provide a brief historical background to the two books and the world that the books represent. They offer an outline of 1-2 Chronicles that views them as a single document that is presented as ...