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1 Chronicles 24:10

in 1 Chronicles 24

the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,

KJV

The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,

This verse in 1 Chronicles 24

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Homilies on the Gospels 2.19 · Written before 735.

If you of the brotherhood would take delight in hearing who that Abijah was from whose priestly division it is said that Zechariah derived his rank, he was the high priest during the time of King David. By the Lord's order, Aaron was the first …

This site's exposition

The first lot fell to Jehoiarib

on 1 Chronicles 24:7-13

The lot gives “the eighth to Abijah”, and Luke 1:5 names Zechariah as a priest of the division of Abijah. Zechariah was serving his division's turn in the temple when Gabriel met him, so this roster dates the opening scene of the New Testament.

This site's exposition

the eighth to Abijah

Hakkoz draws the seventh lot and Abijah the eighth. Luke 1:5 places Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, in the division of Abijah. Bede took this Abijah to be a high priest in the time of King David.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), which is mentioned ( Luke i. 5 ) as the course which Zechariah was of, the father of John the Baptist, by which it appears that these courses which David now settled, though interrupted perhaps in the bad reigns and long broken off by the captivity, yet continued in succession till the destruction of the second temple by the Romans.

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The words behind it

4 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • לְהַקּוֹץ֙to <the> Hakkoz

    lehakotzH6976 →

  • הַשְּׁבִעִ֔יthe seventh

    hasheviiH7637 →98 times

  • לַאֲבִיָּ֖הto Abijah

    laaviyahH29 →25 times

  • הַשְּׁמִינִֽי׃the eighth

    hasheminiH8066 →28 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Luke 1:5

    In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 2:1

      After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,

    • 1 Chronicles 24:19

      This was their appointed order for service when they entered the house of the LORD, according to the regulations prescribed for them by their forefather Aaron, as the LORD, the God of Israel, had…

    • Nehemiah 12:4

      Iddo, Ginnethon, Abijah,

    • Nehemiah 12:17

      of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin and of Moadiah, Piltai;

  • Through

    Nehemiah 12:4

    Iddo, Ginnethon, Abijah,

    it leads to

    • Luke 1:5

      In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.

This page draws on Bede, Homilies on the Gospels 2.19; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.