1 Chronicles 6:1
The genealogy of the high priestly stem to the captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
The genealogy of the high priestly stem to the captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
AHIMAAZ BEGAT AZARIAH - It must, apparently, be this Azariah, and not the son of Johanan 1 Chronicles 6:10, who was high priest at the dedication of Solomon’s Temple. For Zadok, who lived into the reign of Solomon 1 Kings 4:4 cannot have been succeeded by a great-great-grandson. The notice in 1 Chro... [ Continue Reading ]
AHITUB - Between Amariah and Hilkiah 1 Chronicles 6:13 this genealogy is most certainly defective, as it gives three generations only for a period for which nine generations are furnished by the list of the kings of Judah, and which cannot be estimated as much short of 200 years. Further, no one of... [ Continue Reading ]
JEHOZADAK - The meaning of the name is “Jehovah is righteous.” It has been noted as remarkable that the heads of both the priestly and the royal stock carried to Babylon should have had names (Zedekiah and Jehozadak) composed of the same elements, and assertive of the “justice of God,” which their s... [ Continue Reading ]
A general account of the several branches of the tribe of Levi.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF GERSHOM - The names in this list are curiously different from those in 1 Chronicles 6:41, which yet appear to represent the same line reversed. Probably both lists are more or less corrupted, and, as in many genealogies, omission is made, to reduce the number of the names to seven. Compare e. g.... [ Continue Reading ]
VASHNI - The true name of Samuel’s first-born, which was “Joel” (see the margin and references), has here dropped out; and the word properly meaning “and his second (son)” has been taken as the name of the first.... [ Continue Reading ]
The genealogies of David’s three chief singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan or Jeduthun. 1 Chronicles 6:32 THEY WAITED ON THEIR OFFICE - On the establishment and continuance of the choral service in the temple, see 2 Chronicles 5:12, 2 Chronicles 29:27; 2 Chronicles 35:15. 1 Chronicles 6:33 HEMAN - I... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SONS OF AARON - This list, a mere repetition of that in 1 Chronicles 6:3, came, probably, from a different source - a source belonging to the time of David, with whom Ahimaaz (the last name on the list) was contemporary. The other list 1 Chronicles 6:4 came, no doubt, from a document belonging t... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR’S WAS THE LOT - i. e. “the first lot.” The Kohathites had the first lot among the Levitical families, as being the family whereto the high priesthood was attached (compare Joshua 21:10).... [ Continue Reading ]
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, 1 Chronicles 6:72, etc.); in a few he substituted for the old an entirely new name, the modern apellation, probabl... [ Continue Reading ]