These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
Nevertheless, the great purpose of the sacred author is fully achieved in these opening nine chapters, which are, in reality, the introduction to the entire Chronicles.  The very existence of such extensive records among the Jews is overwhelming evidence that the New Testament genealogies  (Matthew 1 and  Luke 3) were unanimously received by that whole first-century generation as absolutely accurate; nor were those records ever challenged by the enemies of Christianity.  The importance of this in the proper identification of the Messiah is indeed significant.