1 Chronicles 9: A Reference to Babylon

Most of this chapter tells us about people who came back to the land after the Babylonian captivity. Note that some of them were from tribes of the north which are mistakenly referred to as the “ten lost tribes” (v. 3). The “ten lost tribes” are part of the millennial theory that falsely claims that God will someday restore them to the land for a thousand years. Actually, they exercised that option a long time ago when the captivity ended. The chapter ends with a repetition of the family tree of Saul (vv. 35-44; see 8:29-38).