1 Chronicles 3

Hey, good morning. Good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning we are at First Chronicles Chapter 3. I've been gone for a while and that's not because I haven't wanted to be here, but just pulling back the curtain a little bit. I wasn't doing so well. I've taken on a little bit too much responsibility with different obligations and I was at the point that I was only sleeping maybe two to four hours of sleep a night and not doing so great.
And so the Lord's been teaching me a lot, even tonight, family worship. So I record these early and I was doing family worship with our kids and with Olivia and we sang the Psalm of Solomon. So this is Psalm 127 where it says, the Lord gives his loved ones sleep.
So I'm not Superman. I can't do everything. And so some things have to give. And so I've had to take a little break from here. I'm still trying to figure out how to decrease my responsibilities and obligations at other places because I love doing this with you. And so I hope that you'll stick it out with me. And we may have a little bit of a bumpiness while I'm still working on the schedule, but we'll get back to being on here every weekday morning.
So. Let's have some coffee, we'll pray, and we'll get into 1 Chronicles chapter 3 about what does God have to say with David's descendants? Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day. We thank you for the blessing it is to get to serve you. You indeed are an amazing, wonderful God, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And you are the sovereign one over all history. So Father, we pray that as we read your word, you would please help us to understand it. In Jesus's name. Amen. All right, here we go.
First Chronicles chapter three. Now these were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron. The first born was Amnon by Ahinoam the Jezreelitus, the second Daniel by Abigail the Carmelitus, the third Absalom by the son of Mecha the daughter of Ptolemy King of Gesher, hmm, that's a pagan king. The fourth, Adonijah the son of Hagith. The fifth, Shephathiah by Abitel. The sixth, Ithrim by his wife, Eglah. These six were born to him in Hebron. There he reigned seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned 39 years. these were born to him in Jerusalem. Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon. Four by Bathshua, the daughter of Amiel. Also there were Ibhar, Elishamah, Eliphelet, Negoah, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishema, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine in all.
These were all the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar, their sister. Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah and his son, Asa and his son, Jehoshaphat his son, Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, Ammon his son, and Josiah his son. The sons of Josiah were Johanan, the firstborn, the second, Jehoiakim, and the third, Zedekiah, and the fourth, Shalom. The sons of Jehoiakim were Jeconiah, his son, and Zedekiah, his son. And the sons of Jeconiah were Asir, Shaltiel, his son, and Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shanazar, Jechemiah, Hoshamah, and Nedabiah.
The sons of Petahiah were Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel were Meshulam, Hananiah, Shelamith, their sister, Hashabua, Ohel, Barakaya, Hasadaya, and Jashub Hesed, five in all. The sons of Hananiah were Pelataya and She'aya. The sons of Repha'iah, the sons of Arnon, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shekeniah, the son of Shechshanayah was Shemaayah.
The sons of Shemaayah were Hatush, Igol, Barayah, Nerayah, and Shephat. Six in all. The sons of Nerayah were Elionei, Hezekiah, and Azrikam. Three in all. The sons of Elionei were Hodaviah, Eliashib, Peliah, Akub, Johanan, Deliah, and Anani, seven in all.
Okay, well, with that covering a huge bunch of history, we need to ask ourselves, A, what's this about? B, what's the best verse to summarize this? And C, what are we called to do in response to this? So A, what is this about? Well, this is a family of David, right? So we start with verses one through nine, and that's listing David and his descendants. Notice it's this wife, this wife, this wife, this wife.
Before he even becomes the king of all of Israel, when he's just the king of Judah, in verses one and three, he's got, what's that? The sixth Ethrim by his wife Egla, right? So, you got six wives. Even before he becomes king over everyone, over the joint nation. And there, when he's in Hebron, he has even more when he gets to Jerusalem, wives and sons.
And that's not even including all of his sons by his concubines, right? This is directly against Deuteronomy chapter 17. David is not going to be the seed of the woman that's going to crush the head of the serpent. And we even find the horrible things happening in David's life.
We get the one Daughter in the lineage here, Tamar. Tamar is... This is the... We're going to get there. There's a horrible story in David's family line where his own daughter is going to be raped by her half-brother. It's a horrible story. It's a true story. We've got to deal with it head-on. It's poor Tamar, right? She's a horrible victim of this story and we find a weak King David.
Then verses 10 through 16, we have Solomon's family line moving through there and then verses 17 all the way through verses 24. By the way, you basically get the reign of all the kings in verses 10 through 16, but then by the time you get to 17 and to verse 24, now you're talking about post-exilic age.
That's kind of what this section is about, this royal genealogy of the line of David. So, that's what this section is about. What's the best verse to summarize this? Well, in my Bible, I have verse 9 underlined. These were all the sons of David. besides the sons of the concubines of Tamar, their sister. This is the good and the bad.
As one guy was having his portrait done in the previous era when people were painting, he had warts on his face and the paint ruined it. smooth out. No, no, no. Paint it warts and all. Right? This is warts and all history. This is true history. There's ugly stuff that happens in David's life. He's not going to whitewash it. The Holy Spirit's not going to allow us just to make David's life out to be wonderful or Solomon's life to be wonderful or anybody's life to be wonderful. The only person who's ever shown in that type of light is Jesus Christ for a reason.
And so, I don't know. Maybe you want to find something else in your Bible. Well, let's talk about C, calling. What are we called to do? How does this point us to Jesus Christ or the covenant of grace? We see the covenant of grace unfolding in front of us.
God had given that promise to Eve and to all humanity that there was going to come a second Adam, a seed of the woman that's going to crush the head of the serpent, even though he's going to have his heel bruised by him. and there's this longing and this making of the covenants and when is this Messiah going to come? When is the Lord's anointed finally going to be king on earth? When is the great prophet better than Moses going to show up? And there's kind of is a trope right by this point as we've gone genealogy by genealogy but the answer still is why does Matthew start with a genealogy why does Luke have a genealogy of Jesus right because it's Jesus who is the true heir of David and the true second Adam and so it is David who fulfill or David who is a type and Jesus who fulfills this line it's a royal line but it's a wanting line It's meant to point us to our hope in Jesus, who is the true King of righteousness, the one who did not violate God's law and loves you and loves me with a perfect righteousness.
Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word and we thank you for giving us our King, Jesus Christ. Father, we pray that we would please follow after you and love you with all of our hearts. We know that we can't do that perfectly. So if we need your spirit, please let us rest in you. Let us find our hope in you, our worth in you, our identity in you. For you made us and you remade us. So Father, we pray that we would rest. Rest in the perfect righteousness of our King Jesus. In his name we pray. Amen. Oh may God bless you. May you walk in the joy of Jesus Christ and I'll see you next time. Bye.