First Baptist Church, Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Devotional: 1 Chronicles 2:1-55

Today’s passage: 1 Chronicles 2:1-55

Helpful thoughts:

  • Today’s genealogy moves to the nation of Israel, starting with the tribe of Judah.
  • Judah’s daughter-in-law also became the mother of two of his sons (Genesis 38).
  • The account of Achan’s sin is found in Joshua 7:1-26.

Questions to consider:

  1. Why would it make sense to recount Israel’s heritage with the line of Judah first?  What makes Judah’s line special?
  2. Why shouldn’t it surprise us that there is sinfulness involved in the line to David, and therefore in the line of Christ?  Outside of Jesus, is anyone without sin (Romans 3:10)?  What did Judah, David, Solomon, and every other person in the line of Christ need just as much as we do?