The writer evidently had before him Joshua 21, which he followed, as to its matter, closely. In some cases he perhaps modernised the ancient names (1 Chronicles 6:58, 1 Chronicles 6:60,...
PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, o...
_UNTO THE SONS OF MERARI WERE GIVEN BY LOT, THROUGHOUT THEIR FAMILIES, OUT OF THE TRIBE OF REUBEN, AND OUT OF THE TRIBE OF GAD, AND OUT OF THE TRIBE OF ZEBULUN, TWELVE CITIES._ No JFB commentary on t...
GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) This chapter records the descendants of Levi, traces the line of the high priests to the captivity, and enumerates the cities of the Priests and Levites....
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 6 The *tribe of Levi –...
(54-81) The Levitical cities, beginning with those of the Aavonites, the principal branch of the Kohathite clan. This list deals with the same topic as Joshua 21:3, with which, upon the whole, it is i...
“So the sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their pastures. And they gave by the lot, out of the tribe of the sons of Judah, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and out of the tr...
In this whole chapter, consisting of eighty-one verses, the one subject is the priestly tribe. This in itself reveals the standard from which the history was written. Judah, the kingly tribe, is the o...
The sacred Scripture, having given a faithful register of the Levites names, in those verses relates their dwelling-places. Jacob, when dying, foretold that Levi should be divided in Jacob, and scatte...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6, 7, 8, AND 9. In the genealogies of Levi (chap. 6) we see, first of all, the line of high priests until the captivity; and then the Levites, their services...
1 Chronicles 6:54....
1 The sonnes of Leui. 4 The line of the Priests vnto the captiuitie. 16 The families of Gershom, Merari, and Kohath. 49 The office of Aaron and his line vnto Ahimaaz. 54 The cities of the Priests...
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites, both the priests and the three families into which they were divided, THESE CITIES WITH THEIR SUBURBS....
THE CITIES OF THE LEVITES...
TO THE LEVITES, i.e. to the tribe of Levi, consisting of priests and other Levites. THESE CITIES, which are numbered or named in this chapter....
1 Chronicles 6:64 children H1121 Israel H3478 gave H5414 (H8799) cities H5892 common-lands H4054 Levites H3881 the children -...
CONTENTS: Sons of Levi. Cities of the priests and Levites. CHARACTERS: Gershom, Kohath, Merari, Aaron, Moses and Miriam. CONCLUSION: There is always abundance of service to be done by God's children...
1 Chronicles 6:4. _Eleazar begat Phinehas._ A correct table of the Jewish highpriests would be very desirable to every lover of sacred literature. The best list I can collect is as follows: Aaron, Ele...
1 CHRONICLES 6:1 The Tribe of Levi. Levi is placed at the center of the Chronicler’s ideal conception of Israel (see diagram in note on 1 Chronicles 1:1). The Davidic monarchy and the Jerusalem temple...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 6:54 Summarized from Joshua 21:1 with some small omissions and variations of order. The Levites possessed no tribal territory, so they are distributed througho
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter refers wholly to tribe of Levi. Gives the family of Aaron, 1 Chronicles 6:1; the descendants of Gershom, Kohath, and Merari, 1 Chronicles 6:16; the pedigrees of the song-...
EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 6:1 The tribe of Levi is now taken. The first three verses prepare the way for running rapidly down the line of high priest descent, from Aaron's son Eleazar to Jehozadak, who...
Now in chapter six, we now get to the tribe of Levi from which was the priestly tribe. [And the three sons which made the major families within the tribe of] Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. An...
Joshua 21:41; Joshua 21:42; Numbers 35:2...