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4. LEVI
CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The high-priestly line (1 Chronicles 6:1)_
2. Levitical genealogies (1 Chronicles 6:16)
3. David's chief musicians (1 Chronicles 6:31)
The
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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...
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8. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF LEVI (1 Chronicles 6:1-30)
TEXT
1 Chronicles 6:1. The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 2.
And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. 3....
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_OF GERSHOM; LIBNI HIS SON, JAHATH HIS SON, ZIMMAH HIS SON,_
Zimmah his son - his grandson (1 Chronicles 6:42)....
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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....
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THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES
GOD RULES HISTORY
1 CHRONICLES
_Ian Mackervoy_
CHAPTER 6
The *tribe of Levi –...
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OF GERSHOM. — Literally, _to_ — _i.e.,_ belonging to _Gershom._
LIBNI HIS SON. — See Numbers 3:21, “To Gershon, the clan of the
Libnite, and the clan of the Shimeite; these are the clans of the
Gersh...
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The genealogy of the Gershonites in seven successive generations. It
does not occur in the Pentateuch. This and the two following lists of
Kohathites and Merarites are symmetrical in plan, but not in...
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_[1 Chronicles 6:5]_ לְֽ גֵרְשֹׁ֑ום לִבְנִ֥י
בְנֹ֛ו יַ֥חַת
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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...
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_Jahath. See ver. 42, 43. --- Zamma springs from Semei, Jeth, Gerson,
and has a son named Ethan, who has Adaia; as Zara begot Athanai, ver.
41. Almost all the names are rather different_...
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I include the whole of this register under one point of view for the
sake of shortness, for it contains nothing more than a register, and,
no doubt, a very trite one: but it opens nothing for improvem...
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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...
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Ver. 20,21. OF GERSHON, LIBNI HIS SON,.... Whose genealogy runs thus,
Jahath, called Jehiel, 1 Chronicles 23:8. Zimmah, between whom was
Shimei, 1 Chronicles 6:42. Joah, the same with Ethan, 1 Chronic...
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_The families of the Levites according to their fathers _
That is, these were the heads of the families which sprang from them.
And it is thought the following catalogue contains the successive
heads...
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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...
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of Gershom: Libni, his son; Jahath, his son; Zimmah, his son;...
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THE LINE OF PRIESTS TO THE CAPTIVITY...
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i.e. His grandson, by his son Shimei, as appears from 1 CHRONICLES
6:42,43, the names of father and son being oft used in scripture of
more remote progenitors or successors....
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1 Chronicles 6:20 Gershon H1647 Libni H3845 son H1121 Jahath H3189 son
H1121 Zimmah H2155 son H1121
Libni -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 6:16 This section details the
three main Levite clans. Seven generations are given for descendants
of GERSHOM and MERARI. This probably takes them to the time of Davi...
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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-...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 6:17; 1 Chronicles 6:42...
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Was Elkanah, the father of Samuel, a Levite, or was he an Ephraimite
as 1 Samuel 1:1 indicates?
(See comments under 1 Samuel 1:1)...