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Bible study · 1 Chronicles 8:1-40

1 Chronicles 8: All these were of the sons of Benjamin

Read 1 Chronicles 8:1-40 before you meet.

In a few lines

Benjamin's long list runs to Saul's family, and it doesn't stop at Gilboa. Before 1 Chronicles says "all his house died together" (10:6), it has already named Jonathan's son Merib-baal and a line after him (8:34-38), and it closes with archers who "had many sons, and grandsons" (8:40).

The verse to carry

“The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and grandsons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.”

1 Chronicles 8:40

To talk about

  1. 1. Most people in this chapter are only a name. A few are remembered for something: building Ono and Lod (8:12), putting Gath to flight (8:13), being "mighty men of valor, archers" (8:40). What would you want to be remembered for?

  2. 2. Jonathan's line runs on for many names after the day Saul and his sons died (8:34-38; 10:6). Who came before you whose life still reaches into yours, and what did they hand on?

  3. 3. Paul listed being "of the tribe of Benjamin" (Philippians 3:5) among things that were gain to him, and wrote, "I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ" (Philippians 3:7). What do you lean on that you would find hardest to count as loss?

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