Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Chronicles 24:31
Over against — Answerable for number and order to those of the priests, so that there should be a course of the Levites for each course of the priests.
Over against — Answerable for number and order to those of the priests, so that there should be a course of the Levites for each course of the priests.
Verse 1 Chronicles 24:31. _THESE LIKEWISE CAST LOTS_] The Levites were divided into _twenty-four_ orders; and these were appointed by lot to serve under the _twenty-four_ orders of the priests: the f...
THE PRINCIPAL FATHERS OVER AGAINST THEIR YOUNGER BRETHREN - i. e., “all the Levitical houses enumerated drew lots in their courses on equal terms, the older families having no advantage over the young...
3. THE TWENTY-FOUR COURSES OF THE PRIESTS CHAPTER 24 _ 1. The twenty-four courses (1 Chronicles 24:1)_ 2. The organization of other Levites (1 Chronicles 24:20) In the previous chapter we read of 2...
The courses of the priests (the sons of Aaron), twenty-four in number, took their turns in the service of the Temple, and each course cast lots for the particular place of service of each priest (_cf....
CAST LOTS. See notes on the Urim and Thummim (Exodus 28:30; Numbers 26:55). OVER AGAINST. equally with....
_over against their brethren_ R.V. EVEN AS THEIR BRETHREN. _and Ahimelech_ We expect _and Abiathar_; cp. 1 Chronicles 24:3; 1Ch 15:11; 1 Chronicles 18:16; with the notes. _the chief of the fathers_...
EVEN THE PRINCIPAL FATHERS OVER AGAINST THEIR YOUNGER BRETHREN— The meaning, says Bishop Patrick, is, that both elder and younger had their places by lot, not by seniority of houses: they who were of...
16. THE CLASSES OF PRIESTS AND LEVITES (Chapter 24) TEXT 1 Chronicles 24:1. And the courses of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 2. But Nadab and...
OVER AGAINST] better, 'equally with.'...
THE COURSES OF THE SONS OF AARON 1. Divisions.. Aaron] i.e. courses of the priests, corresponding to the course of the Levites described in 1 Chronicles 23:6....
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 24 Arrangement of the priests –...
THESE LIKEWISE CAST LOTS OVER AGAINST THEIR BRETHREN THE SONS OF AARON. — Rather, _Just like, in the same way as their brethren,_ the priests. The same compound preposition (_le‘ummath_) recurs in 1 C...
וַ יַּפִּילוּ֩ גַם ־הֵ֨ם גֹּורָלֹ֜ות לְ עֻמַּ
With great care and perfect democracy of choice the courses of the priests were next set in order. There was a tactful mingling in the arrangement of the older and the younger men, so that in this hig...
These likewise cast (f) lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even th...
_Over-against, in imitation of the priests, (Calmet) being likewise divided into twenty-four classes. (Tirinus) --- Both, &c. Hebrew, "the principal fathers over-against their younger brethren." All t...
REFLECTIONS WHAT a sweet thought ariseth out of the perusal of this chapter! we here behold Levites set apart by lot to stand before the Lord, according to the order of their course in their daily min...
How particular the Holy Ghost is in the enumeration of the names of God's servants! Reader, depend upon it, the least and most inconsiderable in God's house is neither overlooked nor forgotten by him....
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 THROUGH 27. From this chapter to Verses 28, 29 of chapter 26 all refers to the house which is to be built. We see the provision that David made of everythi...
THESE LIKEWISE CAST LOTS OVER AGAINST THEIR BRETHREN, THE SONS OF AARON,.... These, being divided into twenty four classes also, cast lots, which class should answer to, attend upon, and serve the fir...
_These likewise cast lots_ There was the like solemnity used in their distribution as there was in that of the priests, by casting lots; whereby they knew what Levites should wait in every course with...
1 The diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron by lot into foure and twenty orders. 20 The Kohathites, 27 and the Merarites diuided by lot. 1 NOW these are the diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron. [NOTE: Levi...
These likewise cast lots over against their brethren, the sons of Aaron, in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the...
Genealogy of the Rest of Levi's Sons...
OVER AGAINST THEIR BRETHREN THE SONS OF AARON, i.e. answerable for number and order to those of the priests, so as there should be a several course of the Levites for each course of the priests. This...
1 Chronicles 24:31 cast H5307 (H8686) lots H1486 as H5980 brothers H251 sons H1121 Aaron H175 presence H6440
CONTENTS: The divisions of the priests and Levites for the temple service. CHARACTERS: God, David, Zadok, Ahimelech, Eleazer, Ithamar. CONCLUSION: God was, and is still, the God of order, particular...
1 Chronicles 24:5. _They were divided by lot,_ into twenty four courses. David might perhaps have interfered, and promoted one of each course to be the overseer of the other priests; but he did more w...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 24:20 The list of Levites in 1 Chronicles 23:6 is updated to include another generation in six of the Levitical families....
CRITICAL NOTES.] In this chapter we have divisions of the 24 orders of priests (1 Chronicles 24:1), and the classes of Levites who attended them in discharge of their sacred functions. _1 Chronicles 2...
EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 24:1 The twenty-four classes of priests. 1 CHRONICLES 24:1 The Hebrew of this verse reads, AND TO THE SONS OF AARON, THEIR DIVISIONS מַחְלְקוֹתָם); the sons of Aaron: Nadeb...
Now the order of the priest, the twenty-four orders of those that were to minister in the, actually, office of sacrifices and incense and so forth are first given in chapter 1 Chronicles 24:2 and thro...
1 Chronicles 24:5; 1 Chronicles 24:6; 1 Chronicles 25:8; 1 Chronicles 26:13;...