1 Chronicles 9:1

EXPOSITION

So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies . The Hebrew verb ( חִתְיַחְשׂי ) is sufficiently satisfied by the rendering were enrolled , or were registered. The book of the kings of Israel and Judah . The book referred to is often styled "The book of the kings of Israel" ( 2 Chronicles 20:34 ; 2 Chronicles 33:18 ); and it is more probable that that is the intended title here, and that the words should follow thus: And Judah were carried captive to Babylon because of their transgressions . This the Masoretic accenting dictates, though the Septuagint, Vulgate, and Luther have our Authorized Version order. The inconvenience to certain of not being able to find their registers is alluded to in Ezra 2:59 .