1 Chronicles 1–9 · lineage cluster online
The Begat Engine
Every "son of" in the Chronicler's ledger, wired up and running hot
Nine chapters of names, from Adam to the exiles coming home from Babylon. Search anybody, pick a tribe, and click a name to see their father, mother, sons and the exact verse. Every link comes from the text of 1 Chronicles 1–9.
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How to read the ledger
Links come from the Theographic Bible Metadata, kept only when both people are named in 1 Chronicles 1–9, then checked against the KJV text. A few were corrected by hand, and those carry an orange note.
In this genealogy, "son of" can mean descendant, and some lists, like 1 Chr 4:1, run down a line rather than naming brothers. The tree follows the reading in the source data, which treats such lists as a line of descent.
Many people share a name (there are several Azariahs, Shemaiahs, Elkanahs and Shallums). Each one has his own entry, and the search shows where each one appears so you can tell them apart.
People named with no parent or child stated are listed under each line as "Named, no link stated". Chapter 9's returned exiles are only partly connected because the text gives short chains.
Generation numbers count from Adam along the father links, so they are counts in the text, not dated years.
Sources
Verse text is the King James Version (public domain). The family-link data is adapted from Theographic Bible Metadata by Robert Rouse under CC BY-SA 4.0, and the adapted data in data.json is shared under the same license.