1 Chronicles 6:1-81
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
NADAB, AND ABIHU] see Leviticus 10:1; 1 Chronicles 24:2. ITHAMAR] The descendants of Ithamar are not given here, but several occur in Samuel and Kings (Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, Ahimelech, Abiathar), and 'courses' of priests who traced their origin to him are enumerated in 1 Chronicles 24.... [ Continue Reading ]
ELEAZAR BEGAT, etc.] The section 1 Chronicles 6:4 is a list of high priests from the death of Aaron to the captivity, but is incomplete, for between Ahitub and Zadok in 1 Chronicles 6:12 another name is inserted in 1 Chronicles 9:11, and several names are omitted which occur in the history of the mo... [ Continue Reading ]
AMMINADAB] the Izhar of 1 Chronicles 6:38 : Numbers 16:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
ELKANAH HIS SON] ought to be followed by 'Samuel his son.'... [ Continue Reading ]
SAMUEL] Samuel's father Elkanah is here regarded as a Levite, whereas in 1 Sa he is an Ephraimite. VASHNI] This is a corruption of the word for 'the second,' the name of the firstborn (Joel v. 33) being lost. 31-48. The genealogies of David's singers. Such names as HEMAN, ASAPH, ETHAN (or Jeduthun... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS BROTHER] i.e. kinsman, or perhaps fellow-craftsman, both being singers:... [ Continue Reading ]
CASTLES.. COASTS] RV 'encampments., borders.' THEIR'S WAS THE LOT] RV 'theirs was the _first_ lot': Joshua 21:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Which were_ LEFT] i.e. other descendants of Kohath, exclusive of the sons of Aaron. _Out of_ THE HALF _tribe_] The names of Ephraim (1 Chronicles 6:66) and Dan are accidentally omitted: see Joshua 21:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH ARE.. NAMES] RV 'which are mentioned by name': 1 Chronicles 6:57.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CITIES OF REFUGE] In strictness Shechem alone of those mentioned in this and the following vv. was a city of refuge.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AIJALON] This and the following city belonged to Dan: Joshua 21:23; Joshua 21:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REST OF THE CHILDREN OF MERARI] RV 'the rest of _the Levites_, the sons of Merari.'... [ Continue Reading ]