📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 4:25
What does 1 Chronicles 4:25 mean?
"Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son."
— 1 Chronicles 4:25 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient.
These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: they lived there with the king for his work.
The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son.
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family did not multiply like the children of Judah.
They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual,
Explanation
This verse is part of a genealogical record in 1 Chronicles 4, which traces the descendants of the tribe of Simeon. In plain language, it simply lists a line of succession: Shallum was the son of the previous person mentioned (Shaul, per verse 24), Mibsam was Shallum's son, and Mishma was Mibsam's son. It is a straightforward father-to-son chain, one link in a much longer genealogical chart that spans the chapter.
The book of 1 Chronicles was likely compiled after the Babylonian exile, addressed to the Israelites who had returned to their land and needed to reestablish their identity as God's covenant people. The author (traditionally identified with Ezra or a scribe in
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