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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

1 Chronicles 24

1 Chronicles 24:1

1 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 24 The priests are divided by lot into twenty-four orders, 1 CHRONICLES 24:1. Ministers allotted them out of the Levites, out of the tribe of the Kohathites and Merarites, 1 CHRONICLES 24:20. THE DIVISIONS, i.e. the several branches into which that family was divided or distribu... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 24:3

ACCORDING TO THEIR OFFICES, or _courses_, or _prefectures_, i.e. allotting to each of them several times wherein they or theirs should by turns have the government of holy ministrations in the temple service.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 24:5

THUS WERE THEY DIVIDED BY LOT; partly to prevent that envy or emulation which otherwise might arise among them; and partly that all men's minds and consciences might be fully satisfied in the order now established by this Divine way of decision. GOVERNORS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD; but that is no other th... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 24:6

Or, the chief (which word is easily supplied out of the context) of _one house of the fathers was taken_ (to wit, by lot) FOR ELEAZAR, (i.e. out of his family,) and that which was taken after it was TAKEN FOR ITHAMAR, i.e. out of his family. The meaning is, that the first lot fell to Eleazar, and th... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 24:7

THE FIRST LOT CAME FORTH, to wit, out of the vessel, in which all the lots were promiscuously put together, and out of which they were severally taken.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 24:19

THESE WERE THE ORDERINGS OF THEM IN THEIR SERVICE; in this order and method they were to come to perform the offices of the temple. _To come into the house of the Lord, according to their manner_, i.e. to come into the temple every sabbath day, and to continue there all the week long until the next... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 24:20

THE REST OF THE SONS OF LEVI; either such as were only Levites, and not priests; or rather, such as were not named or numbered before in this or the former chapter. JEHDEIAH; who being, as it seems, an eminent person, or having a very numerous family, was not reckoned with or under his father's fami... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 24:23

THE FIRST; which word is fitly supplied both out of the rest of this verse, _the second, third, and fourth_ having a manifest reference to the first, and out of 1 CHRONICLES 23:19, 1 CHRONICLES 26:31, where it is expressed.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 24:27

BENO; whose name is here repeated with his brethren, because he was the first-born and head of the rest, who were all reckoned with and under his family, as if they had been branches of it.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 24:31

OVER AGAINST THEIR BRETHREN THE SONS OF AARON, i.e. answerable for number and order to those of the priests, so as there should be a several course of the Levites for each course of the priests. This is expressed concerning the singers, 1CH 25, and the like is implied concerning the porters, 1CH 26,... [ Continue Reading ]

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