1 Chronicles 24:9-19

9 The fifth was Malkijah. The sixth was Mijamin.
10 The seventh was Hakkoz. The eighth was Abijah.
11 The ninth was Jeshua. The tenth was Shecaniah.
12 The eleventh was Eliashib. The twelfth was Jakim.
13 The thirteenth was Huppah. The fourteenth was Jeshebeab.
14 The fifteenth was Bilgah. The sixteenth was Immer.
15 The seventeenth was Hezir. The eighteenth was Happizzez.
16 The nineteenth was Pethahiah. The twentieth was Jehezkel.
17 The twenty-first was Jakin. The twenty-second was Gamul.
18 The twenty-third was Delaiah. The twenty-fourth was Maaziah.
19 These were the groups chosen to serve in the Temple of the Lord. They obeyed the rules given them by Aaron, just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

1 Chronicles 24:9-19 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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