A member of my book group recently shared that she didn\u2019t \u201cfeel seen\u201d by the novel we were reading, a dynamic that made her \u201cdeeply uncomfortable.\u201d I should be used to the trend that says feelings are in fact facts, but this one floored me. When, my internal cynic asked, has it ever been a narrative\u2019s role to see me? Surely the responsibility for seeking identification with a text lies with the reader.<\/p>\r\n
I am guilty however of choosing the chapter in 1 Chronicles that begins with my name. As a cumbersome genealogy whose purpose is to locate the tribe of Benjamin within \u201cthe events of the day,\u201d chapter 8 is blind to my existence. It insists on a family tree that is Benjamin-down, rather than Benjamin-up.<\/p>\r\n
Yet if I activate a relationship with the written word, I can find multiple points with which to commune. They may not be much, but they are better than stewing in a corner of isolation. Benjamin who begets five offspring asks me to consider my legacies to date. Childless, I can instead take stock of my limited achievements and contemplate if and how I will be remembered. The exiled chiefs (vv. 6-8) can in turn alert me to lost tribes within the tides of humanity; they raise questions about land ownership (13) in the long arc of civilization. More obscure names follow, until we pause to learn a number dwelt in Jerusalem (28). An anchor, a return, a reminder that this clan had a claim on the holy city equal to Judah\u2019s.<\/p>\r\n
The descendants of Gibeon then commit a disjunctive error found in the previous verses: we cannot connect Saul and Jonathan to this ancestor because the Chronicler doesn\u2019t say who fathered Saul\u2019s grandfather (33). Has this link been lost, or is the text conspicuously ignoring my need for a tidy line of succession?<\/p>\r\n
The Benjaminites seal the pre-exilic genealogies with their men of substance, excellent archers whose prolific progeny (40) help fulfil the covenant at Bethel. It is reassuring to know certain promises come true\u2014that ideas which started small can multiply till they are like stars in the sky.<\/p>\r\n
Beyond Benjamin, these are the names of men (and a few women) who once lived. We can doubt the literal accuracy of such lists but have every reason to believe people named Uzza, Shaharaim, Abdon, Zichri, and Eliphelet once left footprints in Moab (8) and in the hills north of Judah. Sons called Ishpan and Iphdeiah obeyed and rebelled against dads like Shashak. The Hodeshes who gave their husbands seven sons (9), did they see the mere two born to Hushims as superfluous?<\/p>\r\n
Saying their names does not keep them alive but it respects the hand that recorded them, the passing of so many batons from one child of Israel to the next, the unfathomable totality of the ones who went before.<\/p>\r\n
Consider not just yourself, Benjamin, but the infinite utterances, generations ago, century after century.<\/p>\r\n
And be humbled.<\/p>\r\n
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Chapter 8 continues the lineage through the final brothers ending with the tribe of Benjamin. Of course, the most important Benjamite is King Saul- the first king of Israel.\u00a0 He is listed here: \u201cAnd Ner begot Kish, and Kish begot Saul, and Saul begot Jonathan, and Malkishua and Avinadav and Eshba'al\u201d (Verse 33).<\/span><\/p>\r\n The first king of Israel is simply listed in a regular genealogy. Nothing is mentioned about his time as a royal or how long he reigned. Later in chapter 10 we hear about the end of his life, but there is no mention of his rule here. Contrast this with when David is mentioned. In chapter three we have a list of his sons and the fact that David ruled first in Hebron. \u201csix were born to him in Hebron. He reigned there seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years\u201d (3:4). In chapter 4 we learn about towns that were around until David became king. 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In this chapter, we encounter another such citation. In v. 29 we read: \u201cThe father of Gibeon dwelt in Gibeon, and the name of his wife was Maacah.\u201d The commentary begins with an observation on the later duplication of this verse:<\/span><\/p>\r\n This section until (verse 38): \"...all these were the sons of Azel,\" is written twice in this book. Also the section (9:2): \"The first to settle in their towns, on their property,\" and the section (9:10): \"And of the priests: Jedaiah and Jehoirib\" are likewise in the Book of Nehemiah, as it is written (11:3): \"And these are the heads of the province.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n Again, citing the \u201cJerusalem scroll,\u201d it continues:<\/span><\/p>\r\n Ezra found scrolls: the scroll of <\/span>m\u2019onim<\/span><\/em>, the scroll of <\/span>za\u2019atutei<\/span><\/em> and the scroll of <\/span>ha\u2019achim<\/span><\/em>, and they rejected the words of the one and accepted the words of the two. 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