One principal household being taken for Eleazar— That is, one of the principal families of Eleazar was first taken, and then one of Ithamar's, and thus alternately till the whole was finished. See Houbigant's note.
Verse 1 Chronicles 24:6. _AND SHEMAIAH_] "Moses the great scribe, who is called Shemaiah, the son of Nethaneel, of the tribe of Levi, wrote them down." - _T_. _ONE PRINCIPAL HOUSEHOLD - FOR ELEAZAR_...
WROTE THEM BEFORE THE KING - i. e., “wrote down their names as the lots were drawn forth.” AHIMELECH THE SON OF ABIATHAR - A wrong reading. It should be “Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech.” See the 2 Sa...
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....
THE SCRIBE. the secretary. Compare 1 Chronicles 27:32. See note on 2 Samuel 8:17. AHIMELECH. So that Abiathar had. son named Ahimelech, who assisted him, as Hophni and Phinehas assisted Eli....
_the scribe, one of the Levites_ Particularly described in order to distinguish him from the _king's scribe_(cp. 2 Chronicles 24:11). _one principal household_ R.V. ONE FATHERS" HOUSE. one _taken_ R...
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 SHEMAIAH THE SON OF NETHANEEL THE SCRIBE, ONE OF THE LEVITES, WROTE THEM BEFORE THE KING, AND THE PRINCES, AND ZADOK THE PRIEST, AND AHIMELECH THE SON OF ABIATHAR, AND BEFORE THE CHIEF OF THE FAT...
AHIMELECH THE SON OF ABIATHAR] to be corrected into 'Abiathar son of Ahimelech.'...
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....
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 24 Arrangement of the priests –...
AND SHEMAIAH... WROTE THEM. — Made a list of the names in the order determined by lot, as given below (1 Chronicles 24:7). THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS. — Better, _the heads of the houses_ or _clans._ ON...
וַֽ יִּכְתְּבֵ֡ם שְֽׁמַֽעְיָה֩ בֶן ־נְתַנְאֵ֨ל הַ...
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...
Ithamar. All was done with the utmost order, and the priests took care to observe the regulation, till the end of the republic. (Josephus, [Antiquities?] vii. 2., and contra Apion i., and ii., and Luk...
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 SHEMAIAH THE SON OF NETHANEEL THE SCRIBE,.... The Targum is, Moses the chief scribe, so called: one OF THE LEVITES WROTE THEM: the lots, and the names upon them, put into the urn, and as they cam...
And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, [one] of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and [before] the chief of the...
_Shemaiah, the scribe, wrote them before the king_ Their names were written and put into an urn, out of which the lots were to be drawn: which, that there might be no suspicion of fraud, were drawn be...
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 Shemaiah, the son of Nethaneel, the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok, the priest, and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the...
THE DIVISIONS OF THE PRIESTS...
PRINCIPAL HOUSEHOLD: _ Heb._ house of the father...
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 T...
1 Chronicles 24:6 scribe H5608 (H8802) Shemaiah H8098 son H1121 Nethanel H5417 Levites H3881 wrote H3789 (H879
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 24:5 Specific duties were assigned by drawing lots between the families of Eleazar and of Ithamar. ⇐...
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 23:24; 1 Kings 4:3; 2 Chronicles 34:13; Ezra 7:6;...
One, &c. — Or, the chief of one house of the fathers was taken (by lot) for Eleazar (out of his family) and that which was taken after it was taken for Ithamar, out of his family. So the first lot fel...