1 Chronicles 24:1-10

Divisions of Levites

1 Now the divisions of the descendants of Aaron were these: ¹the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

2 ²But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

3 David, with ³Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their offices for their ministry.

4 Since more chief men were found from the descendants of Eleazar than the descendants of Ithamar, they divided them thus: there were sixteen * heads of fathers' households of the descendants of Eleazar and eight of the descendants of Ithamar, according to their fathers' households.

5 ⁴Thus they were divided by lot, the one as the other; for they were officers of the sanctuary and officers of God, both from the descendants of Eleazar and the descendants of Ithamar.

6 Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel the scribe, from the Levites, recorded them in the presence of the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, ⁵Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers' households of the priests and of the Levites; one father's household taken for Eleazar and one taken for Ithamar.

7 Now the first lot came out for Jehoiarib, the second for Jedaiah,

8 the third for Harim, the fourth for Seorim,

9 the fifth for Malchijah, the sixth for Mijamin,

10 the seventh for Hakkoz, the eighth for ⁶Abijah,

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1 Chronicles 24:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 24

This chapter relates the distribution David made of the priests into twenty four classes or courses, and which were observed by lot, and each course had an head or principal man over it, 1Ch 24:1-19 and of a like distribution of the Levites into the same number of courses, to attend the priests in theirs, 1Ch 24:20-31.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 6

1. Exodus 6:23
2. Leviticus 10:2
3. 1 Chronicles 6:8
4. 1 Chronicles 24:31
5. 1 Chronicles 18:16
6. Nehemiah 12:4; Luke 1:5

Footnotes 9

[a]. Lit "sons"
[b]. Or "children"
[c]. Lit "in their service"
[d]. Lit "sons"
[e]. Lit "sons"
[f]. Lit "sons"
[g]. Lit "sons"
[h]. Lit "sons"
[i]. Lit "sons"