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4. LEVI
CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The high-priestly line (1 Chronicles 6:1)_
2. Levitical genealogies (1 Chronicles 6:16)
3. David's chief musicians (1 Chronicles 6:31)
The
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PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH
GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general
introduction to the whole work. They contain the following
genealogies, o...
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_Mahli, and Mushi_ 1Ch 23:21; 1 Chronicles 24:26; Exodus 6:19....
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8. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF LEVI (1 Chronicles 6:1-30)
TEXT
1 Chronicles 6:1. The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 2.
And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. 3....
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_AND THESE BE THE NAMES OF THE SONS OF GERSHOM; LIBNI, AND SHIMEI._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED)
This chapter records the descendants of Levi, traces the line of the
high priests to the captivity, and enumerates the cities of the
Priests and Levites....
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THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES
GOD RULES HISTORY
1 CHRONICLES
_Ian Mackervoy_
CHAPTER 6
The *tribe of Levi –...
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(16-19) The three branches of Levi with their main subdivisions.
Parallel passages, Exodus 6:16; Numbers 3:17.
(16) GERSHOM. — See Note on 1 Chronicles 6:1. In the Pentateuch,
Gershom is son of Moses;...
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_[1 Chronicles 6:4]_ בְּנֵ֥י מְרָרִ֖י מַחְלִ֣י
וּ מֻשִׁ֑י...
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In this whole chapter, consisting of eighty-one verses, the one
subject is the priestly tribe. This in itself reveals the standard
from which the history was written. Judah, the kingly tribe, is the
o...
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I include the whole of this register under one point of view for the
sake of shortness, for it contains nothing more than a register, and,
no doubt, a very trite one: but it opens nothing for improvem...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6, 7, 8, AND 9.
In the genealogies of Levi (chap. 6) we see, first of all, the line of
high priests until the captivity; and then the Levites, their services...
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1 Chronicles 6:16...
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_The families of the Levites according to their fathers _
That is, these were the heads of the families which sprang from them.
And it is thought the following catalogue contains the successive
heads...
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1 The sonnes of Leui.
4 The line of the Priests vnto the captiuitie.
16 The families of Gershom, Merari, and Kohath.
49 The office of Aaron and his line vnto Ahimaaz.
54 The cities of the Priests...
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The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the
Levites according to their fathers....
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THE LINE OF PRIESTS TO THE CAPTIVITY...
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Who are distinguished and named from their fathers. And the following
catalogue is thought to contain the successive heads or chiefs of
their several families until thee times of David, by whom they w...
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CONTENTS: Sons of Levi. Cities of the priests and Levites.
CHARACTERS: Gershom, Kohath, Merari, Aaron, Moses and Miriam.
CONCLUSION: There is always abundance of service to be done by God's
children...
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1 Chronicles 6:4. _Eleazar begat Phinehas._ A correct table of the
Jewish highpriests would be very desirable to every lover of sacred
literature. The best list I can collect is as follows: Aaron, Ele...
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1 CHRONICLES 6:1 The Tribe of Levi. Levi is placed at the center of
the Chronicler’s ideal conception of Israel (see diagram in note on
1 Chronicles 1:1). The Davidic monarchy and the Jerusalem temple...
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1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 6:16 This section details the
three main Levite clans. Seven generations are given for descendants
of GERSHOM and MERARI. This probably takes them to the time of Davi...
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CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter refers wholly to tribe of Levi. Gives
the family of Aaron, 1 Chronicles 6:1; the descendants of Gershom,
Kohath, and Merari, 1 Chronicles 6:16; the pedigrees of the
song-...
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EXPOSITION
1 CHRONICLES 6:1
The tribe of Levi is now taken. The first three verses prepare the way
for running rapidly down the line of high priest descent, from Aaron's
son Eleazar to Jehozadak, who...
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Now in chapter six, we now get to the tribe of Levi from which was the
priestly tribe.
[And the three sons which made the major families within the tribe of]
Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. An...
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1 Chronicles 23:21; 1 Chronicles 24:26; Exodus 6:19; Numbers 26:57;...
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Was Elkanah, the father of Samuel, a Levite, or was he an Ephraimite
as 1 Samuel 1:1 indicates?
(See comments under 1 Samuel 1:1)...