June 18, 2013 – 1 Chronicles 1 – 1:37

The thing I find interesting in this list of names are the names that pop out as names you will see or have seen as enemies of Israel or places they will take over.  You see Canaan as one of the decedents and then we know that Moses will go to conquer the land of the Canaanites.  Magog, and this is one of the names of the tribes that is to be involved in the conquering of Israel from the prophets, Midian which becomes the father-in-law of Moses.  Obviously more than one person can be named a certain name, but many of these names become the different tribes spread throughout the region and many become the enemies of Israel.  I remember when Moses was traveling though the wilderness, he would come up to a tribe and they would talk like they are of distant relation, but they are still not part of the chosen ones of God.  You can see, if they kept track of family trees like this, they know who is who and who is related and how.