1 Chronicles 24:16-26

16 the nineteenth to Petachyah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
17 the one and twentieth to Yakhin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,
18 the three and twentieth to Delayah, the four and twentieth to Ma`azyah.
19 This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of the LORD according to the ordinance [given] to them by Aharon their father, as the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, had commanded him.
20 Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of `Amram, Shuva'el; of the sons of Shuva'el, Yechdeyahu.
21 Of Rechavyah: of the sons of Rechavyah, Yishshiyah the chief.
22 Of the Izharites, Shelomit; of the sons of Shelomit, Yachat.
23 The sons [of Hevron]: Yeriyahu [the chief], Amaryah the second, Yachazi'el the third, Yekam`am the fourth.
24 The sons of `Uzzi'el, Mikhah; of the sons of Mikhah, Shamir.
25 The brother of Mikhah, Yishshiyah; of the sons of Yishshiyah, Zekharyah.
26 The sons of Merari: Machli and Mushi; the sons of Ya`aziyahu: Beno.

1 Chronicles 24:16-26 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.

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