1 Chronicles 24:3 BSB

1 Chronicles 24:3

With the help of Eleazar’s descendant Zadok and Ithamar’s descendant Ahimelech, David divided them according to the offices of their service.

BSB

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ASV

And David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.

KJV

And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And David distributed them,.... The posterities of Eleazar and Ithamar into certain classes or courses: both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar; these were the two principal men of the respective families, the one was high priest, and the other "sagan" or deputy; or they both officiated as high priests alternately, until the one was removed in Solomon's time, and the other established alone.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Zadok and Ahimelech (rather Abiathar, see 1Ch 24:6) assisted David in drawing up the priestly courses, as the “captains of the host” assisted him in making the divisions of the singers 1Ch 25:1.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Zadok . . . and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar--This statement, taken in connection with 1Ch 24:6, is not a little perplexing, since (2Sa 15:24, 35; 20:25) Abiathar is mentioned as the person conjoined in David's time with Zadok, in the collegiate exercise of the high priesthood.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֶּֽחָלְקֵ֣ם	vai.ye.chal.Kem	and he divided them	H2505 →
דָּוִ֔יד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
וְצָדוֹק֙	ve.tza.dOk	and Zadok	H6659 →
מִן־	min-	one of	H4480 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
אֶלְעָזָ֔ר	'el.'a.Zar	Eleazar	H499 →
וַאֲחִימֶ֖לֶךְ	va.'a.chi.Me.lekh	and Ahimelech	H288 →
מִן־	min-	one of	H4480 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
אִיתָמָ֑ר	'i.ta.Mar	Ithamar	H385 →
לִפְקֻדָּתָ֖ם	lif.ku.da.Tam	to group their	H6486 →
בַּעֲבֹדָתָֽם׃	ba.'a.vo.da.Tam	by service their	H5656 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 21:1
Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
leads to
- Nehemiah 11:32
  in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
- Mark 2:26
  During the high priesthood of Abiathar, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which was lawful only for the priests. And he gave some to his companions as well.”
- 1 Samuel 14:3
  including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not…
- Isaiah 10:32
  Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
- 1 Samuel 16:4
  So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”
Through
1 Chronicles 24:31
As their brothers the descendants of Aaron did, they also cast lots in the presence of King David and of Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the families of the priests and Levites—the family…
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 24:5–6
  Thus they were divided by lot, for there were officers of the sanctuary and officers of God among both Eleazar’s and Ithamar’s descendants.
Through
1 Kings 2:35
And the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.
leads to
- 1 Kings 2:27
  So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.
Through
2 Samuel 8:17
Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 6:8
  Ahitub was the father of Zadok, Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz,

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