This verse continues the genealogical progression establishing continuity from Adam through Noah toward the patriarchal period. The genealogical record demonstrates God's faithfulness in preserving the line of promise across generations despite human sin and failure. Each person named in this genealogy, though often with minimal biographical detail, represents a crucial link in the chain of divine purposes that extends from creation toward the covenant with Abraham and eventually toward the royal line of David. The theological principle of genealogical continuity reinforces that God's redemptive purposes work through family relationships and ordinary human succession, not through miraculous interruption but through the sustained faithfulness of God's covenant with successive generations. For the Chronicler's post-exilic audience, the careful preservation of these genealogical details affirms that no break in the chain of descent can interrupt God's purposes, and that even exile and political disruption cannot finally sever the connection between the post-exilic community and their ancestral heritage in the covenant promises.

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