1 Chronicles 24:6-16

6 Sh'ma'yah the son of N'tan'el the secretary, one of the L'vi'im, recorded them in the presence of the king, the officers, Tzadok the cohen, Achimelekh the son of Evyatar, and the clan leaders of the cohanim and of the L'vi'im - with two clan divisions taken from El'azar for each one from Itamar.
7 The first lot drawn was for Y'hoyariv, the second for Y'da'yah,
8 the third for Harim, the fourth for S'orim,
9 the fifth for Malkiyah, the sixth for Miyamin,
10 the seventh for Hakotz, the eighth for Aviyah,
11 the ninth for Yeshua, the tenth for Sh'khanyahu,
12 the eleventh for Elyashiv, the twelfth for Yakim,
13 the thirteenth for Hupah, the fourteenth for Yeshev'av,
14 the fifteenth for Bilgah, the sixteenth for Immer,
15 the seventeenth for Hezir, the eighteenth for HaPitzetz
16 the nineteenth for P'tachyah, the twentieth for Yechezk'el,

1 Chronicles 24:6-16 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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