1 Chronicles 1:1-4 in Detail CEV Challenge SB

The Descendants of Adam

1 Chronicles 1:1-4 Adam was the father of Seth, and his descendants were Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah, who had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Descendants of Adam

Genesis 5:1-32 God created men and women to be likes himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. The following is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:

When Adam was 130, he had a son who was just like him, and he named him Seth.

Adam had more children

and died at the age of 930,

With Seth was 105, he had a son named Enosh.

Seth had more children

and died at the age of 912.

When Enosh was 90, he had a son named Kenan.

Enosh had more children

and died at the age pf 905.

When Kenan was 70, he had son named Mahalalel.

Kenan had more children

and died at the age of 910.

When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son named Jared.

Mahalalel had more children

and died at the age of 895.

When Jared was 162, he had a son named Enosh.

Jared had more children

and died at the age of 962.

When Enosh was 65, he had a son named Methuselah,

and during the next 300 years he had more children. Enosh truly loved God,

and God took him away at the age of 365.

When Methuselah was 187, he had a son named Lamech.

Methuselah had more children

and died at the age of 969.

When Lamech was one 182, he had a son.

Lamech said, "I'll name him Noah because he will give us comfort, as we struggle hard to make a living on this land that the Lord had put under a curse."

Lamech had more children

and died at the age of 777.

After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons and named them Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The Descendants of Noah

Genesis 10:1-32 After the flood Shem, Ham, and Japheth had many descendants.

The Descendants of Japheth

Japheth's descendants had their own languages, tribes, and land.

They were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Gomer was the ancestor of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

Javan was the ancestor of Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim, who settled along the coast.

The Descendants of Ham

Ham's descendants had their own languages, tribes, and land.

They were Ethiopia, Egypt, Put, and Canaan

Cush was the ancestor of Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca.

Raamah was the ancestor of Sheba and Dedan.

Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, a mighty warrior whose strength came from the Lord. This is why people say; "You hunt like Nimrod with the strength of the lord!"

Nimrod first ruled in Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all of which were in Babylonia. From there Nimrod went to assyria and built the great city of Nineveh

He also built Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, as well as Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah.

Egypt was the ancestor of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casuhim, and Caphtorim, the ancestor of the Philistines.

Canaan's sons

were Sidon and Heth. Canaan was also the ancestor of

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the

Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

Later the Canaanites spread from the territory of Sidon and settled as far away as Gaza in the direction of Gerar. They also went as far

as Lasha

in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim.

The Descendants of Shem

Shem's descendants had their own language, tribes, and land. He was the older brother of Japheth and the ancestor of the tribes of Eber.

Shem was the ancestor of Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

Aram was the ancestor of Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

Arpachshad was the father of Shelah and the grandfather of Eber,

whose first son was named Peleg, because it was durung his time that tribes divided up the earth. Eber's second son was Joktan.

Joktan was the ancestor of

Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth,

Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal,

Diklah, ZObal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah,

and Jobab.

Their land reached from Mesha in the direction of Sephar, the hill country in the east.

This completes the list of Noah's descendants. after the flood their descendants became nations and spread all over the world.