Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Chronicles 24:3
Distributed — Allotting to each of them several times, wherein they should by turns have the government of holy ministrations.
Distributed — Allotting to each of them several times, wherein they should by turns have the government of holy ministrations.
Verse 1 Chronicles 24:3. _AND AHIMELECH_] Ahimelech is put here for _Abiathar_, who was high priest in the days of David. Abiathar had also the name of Ahimelech, as well as his father. See _Calmet_....
Zadok and Ahimelech (rather Abiathar, see 1 Chronicles 24:6) assisted David in drawing up the priestly courses, as the “captains of the host” assisted him in making the divisions of the singers 1 Chro...
3. THE TWENTY-FOUR COURSES OF THE PRIESTS CHAPTER 24 _ 1. The twenty-four courses (1 Chronicles 24:1)_ 2. The organization of other Levites (1 Chronicles 24:20) In the previous chapter we read of 2...
The courses of the priests (the sons of Aaron), twenty-four in number, took their turns in the service of the Temple, and each course cast lots for the particular place of service of each priest (_cf....
DISTRIBUTED. divided into courses, as in 1 Chronicles 23:6....
_David distributed them, both Zadok … and Ahimelech_ R.V. DAVID WITH ZADOK … AND AHIMELECH … DIVIDED THEM. _Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar_ The colleague of Zadok in the priesthood is variously nam...
16. THE CLASSES OF PRIESTS AND LEVITES (Chapter 24) TEXT 1 Chronicles 24:1. And the courses of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 2. But Nadab and...
_AND DAVID DISTRIBUTED THEM, BOTH ZADOK OF THE SONS OF ELEAZAR, AND AHIMELECH OF THE SONS OF ITHAMAR, ACCORDING TO THEIR OFFICES IN THEIR SERVICE._ Zadok ... and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar. Thi...
THE COURSES OF THE SONS OF AARON 1. Divisions.. Aaron] i.e. courses of the priests, corresponding to the course of the Levites described in 1 Chronicles 23:6....
ABIMELECH] an error (through an accidental omission) for 'Abiathar son of Abimelech,' and so in 1 Chronicles 23:31....
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 24 Arrangement of the priests –...
AND DAVID DISTRIBUTED THEM. — The same phrase as at 1 Chronicles 13:3. (See Note there.) BOTH ZADOK OF THE SONS OF ELEAZAR, AND AHIMELECH OF THE SONS OF ITHAMAR. — This expression forms part of the _s...
וַ יֶּֽחָלְקֵ֣ם דָּוִ֔יד וְ צָדֹוק֙ מִן ־בְּנ
With great care and perfect democracy of choice the courses of the priests were next set in order. There was a tactful mingling in the arrangement of the older and the younger men, so that in this hig...
_Ahimelech is styled also Achimelech and Abiathar, ver. 6, 21., and chap. xviii. 16. (Calmet) --- Courses, twenty-four, which were to serve by lot, that no one might complain, as they were equally pri...
The division and arrangement begins very properly in the house of Aaron; for Aaron himself was called of God. Hebrews 5:4. And it was worthy observation that the appointment of this man's family to th...
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 DAVID DISTRIBUTED THEM,.... The posterities of Eleazar and Ithamar into certain classes or courses: BOTH ZADOK OF THE SONS OF ELEAZAR, AND AHIMELECH OF THE SONS OF ITHAMAR; these were the two pri...
And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service. Ver. 3. _And Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar._] Ahim...
_And David distributed them_, &c. To avoid all confusion, now that they were much increased, he distributed the priests, as he had done the Levites, into several courses, allotting to each of them the...
1 The diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron by lot into foure and twenty orders. 20 The Kohathites, 27 and the Merarites diuided by lot. 1 NOW these are the diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron. [NOTE: Levi...
And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons, that is, of the line, OF ELEAZAR, AND AHIMELECH OF THE SONS, that is, of the line, OF ITHAMAR, ACCORDING TO THEIR OFFICES IN THEIR SERVICE....
THE DIVISIONS OF THE PRIESTS...
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...
1 Chronicles 24:3 David H1732 Zadok H6659 sons H1121 Eleazar H499 Ahimelech H288 sons H1121 Ithamar H385 divided...
CONTENTS: The divisions of the priests and Levites for the temple service. CHARACTERS: God, David, Zadok, Ahimelech, Eleazer, Ithamar. CONCLUSION: God was, and is still, the God of order, particular...
1 Chronicles 24:5. _They were divided by lot,_ into twenty four courses. David might perhaps have interfered, and promoted one of each course to be the overseer of the other priests; but he did more w...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 24:1 David organizes the priests into 24 divisions by lot. Each division was to serve for two weeks of the year, based on a lunar calendar of 48 weeks....
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 24:3 ZADOK. See 1 Kings 1:8; 1 Kings 2:35....
CRITICAL NOTES.] In this chapter we have divisions of the 24 orders of priests (1 Chronicles 24:1), and the classes of Levites who attended them in discharge of their sacred functions. _1 Chronicles 2...
EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 24:1 The twenty-four classes of priests. 1 CHRONICLES 24:1 The Hebrew of this verse reads, AND TO THE SONS OF AARON, THEIR DIVISIONS מַחְלְקוֹתָם); the sons of Aaron: Nadeb...
Now the order of the priest, the twenty-four orders of those that were to minister in the, actually, office of sacrifices and incense and so forth are first given in chapter 1 Chronicles 24:2 and thro...
1 Chronicles 12:27; 1 Chronicles 12:28; 1 Chronicles 15:11; 1 Chronicles 16:39;...