iv. 24–43. Simeon (20 verses).
v. 1–26. Reuben, Gad, and Eastern Manasseh (26 verses).
vi. 1–81. Levi (81 verses).
vii. 1–40. Issachar, Zebulun, and Dan (according to a correction of the text, vii. 6–11, and 12), Naphtali, Eastern Manasseh (again), Ephraim, and Asher (40 verses).
viii. 1–40. Benjamin (40 verses).
It may easily be seen that the tribes in which the Chronicler is really interested are the three southern tribes, Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, together with the priestly tribe, Levi.
The order in which the tribes are mentioned is geographical, Judah and Simeon the southern tribes first, then the eastern tribes, Reuben, Gad, Manasseh; then (conveniently) Levi, and then the northern tribes of western Palestine, ending with Benjamin (viii., ix. 35–44) and the list of inhabitants of Jerusalem (in ix. 1–34).
Chapter II.
1, 2 (compare Genesis xxxv. 22b–26).
The Sons of Israel.