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1 Chronicles 6:8-18

Listen to 1 Chronicles 6:8-18
8 Ahitub fathered Zadok; Zadok fathered Ahimaaz;
9 Ahimaaz fathered Azariah; Azariah fathered Johanan;
10 Johanan fathered Azariah, who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem;
11 Azariah fathered Amariah; Amariah fathered Ahitub;
12 Ahitub fathered Zadok; Zadok fathered Shallum;
13 Shallum fathered Hilkiah; Hilkiah fathered Azariah;
14 Azariah fathered Seraiah; and Seraiah fathered Jehozadak.
15 Jehozadak went into exile when the Lord sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.
16 [a]Levi's sons: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
17 These are the names of Gershom's sons: Libni and Shimei.
18 Kohath's sons: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

1 Chronicles 6:8-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 6

This chapter begins with the fathers and heads of the tribe of Levi, 1Ch 6:1-3, and reckons up the high priests in the line of Eleazar, to the Babylonish captivity, 1Ch 6:4-15 gives an account of the families of the sons of Levi, 1Ch 6:16-30 and of those Levites that were employed as singers, and in other ministrations in the sanctuary in the times of David and Solomon, 1Ch 6:31-49, then follows a repetition of the sons of Aaron in the line of Eleazar, to the said times, 1Ch 6:50-53, and a recital of the dwelling places of the Levites in the several tribes, 1Ch 6:54-81.

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Footnotes 1

  • [a] 1 Ch 6:1 in Hb
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