Random Thoughts on Chronicles

1.  What do the following men have in common -  Jashobeam, Eleazar, Abishai, Benaiah, Uriah?

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They are all included in the list of King David’s mighty men in I Chronicles 11.  Wouldn’t you have liked to be one of David’s mighty men?  (That is, assuming you are indeed a man.  Bek and Tab, you are not eligible to apply.)  This list is awesome, and makes me wonder, “why don’t more Christian people name their sons after someone in this list?”  I am going to broach this to my wife and lobby hard to have a son (if we are so fortunate in the next year or two) that we will name Benaiah, or Azmaveth, or Sibbecai.

2.  How many of you knew that Uriah the Hittite, he of David and Bathsheba fame, was one of those mighty men?  Maybe we could name our son Uriah, and then when he nails a 3 pointer in someone’s face in 7th grade hoops, he could say, “in your eye-uh”!  Kudos to Jim Borton for this pun that I remember him making nearly 20 years ago…

3.  The mighty Gadite warriors in chapter 12 had “the faces of lions” and they were “as swift as gazelles in the mountains”.

4.  David had at least 20 named children (19 sons and 1 daughter).   My speculation is that it’s likely that David had more than 100 children.  Consider – Aside from Bathsheba, most of his wives are recorded as bearing him only one son.  It’s highly likely that they bore him multiple children, including sons and daughters.  Also, none of his concubines are named, and none of the children of his concubines are named.  He may have had as many as 20 concubines or more!  Do the math.  Yikes!  Don’t complain about the chaos at your house if you have children!

5.  Kenaniah was appointed to be in charge of the singing because “he was skillful at it.”

6.  As Steve pointed out in his message last Sunday (or the Sunday before?) – David begged God to allow him to build a house (temple) for God, but God insisted instead on building a house for David; an everlasting house and a throne that would be established forever.  And we are the beneficiaries of that house, in the person of Jesus Christ, the son of David.