Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
1 Chronicles 23:11
They were reckoned together as one family, and were not called by the name of their two immediate parents, but by the name of their grandfather Shimei.
They were reckoned together as one family, and were not called by the name of their two immediate parents, but by the name of their grandfather Shimei.
Verse 1 Chronicles 23:11. _THEREFORE THEY WERE IN ONE RECKONING_] The family of _Shimei_, being small, was united with that of _Laadan_, that the two families might do that work which otherwise belong...
2. THE NUMBERING AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE LEVITES CHAPTER 23 _ 1. Solomon made king (1 Chronicles 23:1)_ 2. The number of the Levites (1 Chronicles 23:2) 3. The Gershonites (1
1 Chronicles 23:1 to 1 Chronicles 24:31. THE LEVITES AND THE PRIESTS. The Chronicler implies that the organisation of the Levites and priests and the settling of their duties as existing in his day wa...
Organisation of the Levites (first account) Two accounts are given of David's organisation of the Levites. According to the first the Levites were admitted to service at thirty years of age; 1 Chroni...
_they were in one reckoning, according to_their _father's house_ R.V. THEY BECAME A FATHERS" HOUSE IN ONE RECKONING....
LESSON ELEVEN 23-24 THE LEVITES AND THEIR DUTIES 15. THE LEVITES AND THEIR WORK (Chapter 23) INTRODUCTION The successful functioning of the Temple required a careful organization of the priesthood....
_THE SONS OF LAADAN; THE CHIEF WAS JEHIEL, AND ZETHAM, AND JOEL, THREE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
23:11 head, (a-5) Or 'the first.'...
DAVID MAKES SOLOMON KING. PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE LEVITES This and the following three Chapter s (supplementing the earlier history) describe the arrangements made by David for the organisation of...
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 23 Organisation of the *Levites –...
BUT JEUSH AND BERIAH HAD NOT MANY SONS. — _Now Jeush and Beriah had not multiplied sons; so they became_ (one) _father-home_ (_bêth-âb_), _one class_ (or _muster — pĕquddâh_). Altogether, then, there...
(6-23) The twenty-four houses of the Levites....
וַֽ יְהִי ־יַ֣חַת הָ רֹ֔אשׁ וְ זִיזָ֖ה
David's interest in building the Temple and establishing it as the center of worship and of the nation is not only manifest in the material preparation he made in amassing treasure, and carrying out p...
_Children. All together were not more than the children of each of the preceding, so that they only formed one class. (Tirinus) --- It would have been too burdensome for them to have performed the sam...
I do not interrupt the reading of this list of the Levites, but bring the account altogether into one view, because the observations arising out of the whole are one and the same. The Reader may perha...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 THROUGH 27. From this chapter to Verses 28, 29 of chapter 26 all refers to the house which is to be built. We see the provision that David made of everythi...
AND JAHATH WAS THE CHIEF,.... The prince and head of a family: AND ZIZA THE SECOND; the same with Zina in 1 Chronicles 23:10, and is there read Ziza in the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions: BUT...
1 Dauid in his old age maketh Solomon King. 2 The number and distribution of the Leuites 7 The families of the Gershonites. 12 The sonnes of Kohath. 21 The sonnes of Merari. 24 The office of the...
And Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second. But Jeush and Beriah had not many sons, their descendants being numerically weak; THEREFORE THEY WERE IN ONE RECKONING, considered as one division, ACCOR...
THE LEVITES DIVIDED INTO THREE COURSES...
HAD NOT MANY SONS: _ Heb._ did not multiply sons...
1-23 David, having given charge concerning the building of the temple, settles the method of the temple service, and orders the officers of it. When those of the same family were employed together, it...
1 Chronicles 23:11 Jahath H3189 first H7218 Zizah H2125 second H8145 Jeush H3266 Beriah H1283 many H7235 (H
CONTENTS: Number and distribution of the Levites. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: There is a place in the service of God for every Christian and God would have each at his own post, for of all m...
1 Chronicles 23:3. _Thirty years._ So Moses had commanded. Numbers 4:3. But now it would seem from 1 Chronicles 23:24, that David numbered the levites from the age of twenty, the number at thirty not...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 23:1 In chs. 1 Chronicles 23:1 David continues to prepare for Solomon’s rule by providing religious, military, and political leadership....
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 23:6 David organizes the Levites according to their traditional clans: the Gershonites (vv. 1 Chronicles 23:7), the Kohathites (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.] This and following three Chapter s contain an account of Levites and distribution of their services. Here their number, classification, and work (1 Chronicles 23:1). But 1 Chronicles...
EXPOSITION This chapter is the first of four employed on the subject of the Levites and the services distributed among them. The twenty-four orders of priests, sons of Aaron, occupy 1 Chronicles 24:1....
And so David when he was old, made Solomon his son king over Israel (1 Chronicles 23:1). Now David then began to set forth the order of the priesthood, the Levitical priesthood. Now David here demonst...
1 Chronicles 23:10...