1 Chronicles 6:5
in 1 Chronicles 6Abishua was the father of Bukki, Bukki was the father of Uzzi,
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ASV
and Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,
KJV
And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Uzzi--It is supposed that, in his days, the high priesthood was, for unrecorded reasons, transferred from Eleazar's family to Ithamar's, in which it continued for several generations.
This site's exposition
Eleazar was the father of Phinehas
on 1 Chronicles 6:4-15
The priestly line runs from Aaron's grandson Phinehas through Zadok, who served David and Solomon, down to Jehozadak. Barnes flags a gap between Amariah and Hilkiah, three generations for a span the list of Judah's kings puts near two hundred years. The priesthood ends in Babylon as the kingdom did.
This site's exposition
Abishua was the father of Bukki
Abishua, Bukki and Uzzi carry the line of Eleazar and Phinehas, and Ezra 7:4 to 5 names them again. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown suppose that in the days of Uzzi the high priesthood passed for a time to the sons of Ithamar. The text gives no reason.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam, we have known much more of than their names, and cannot pass them over here without remembering that this was that Moses and Aaron whom God honoured in making them instruments of Israel's deliverance and settlement and figures of him that was to come, Moses as a prophet and Aaron as a priest.
All these here named were not high priests; for, in the time of the judges, that dignity was, upon some occasion or other, brought into the family of Ithamar, of which Eli was; but in Zadok it returned again to the right line. Of Azariah it is here said (
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The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַאֲבִישׁ֙וּעַ֙ | vaavishua' | and Abishua | H50 → | 5 times |
| הוֹלִ֣יד | holid | he fathered | H3205 → | 496 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בֻּקִּ֔י | buki | Bukki | H1231 → | 5 times |
| וּבֻקִּ֖י | uvuki | and Bukki | H1231 → | 5 times |
| הוֹלִ֥יד | holid | he fathered | H3205 → | 496 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עֻזִּֽי׃ | ʾuzi | Uzzi | H5813 → | 11 times |
וַאֲבִישׁ֙וּעַ֙and Abishua
vaavishua'H50 →5 times
הוֹלִ֣ידhe fathered
holidH3205 →496 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
בֻּקִּ֔יBukki
bukiH1231 →5 times
וּבֻקִּ֖יand Bukki
uvukiH1231 →5 times
הוֹלִ֥ידhe fathered
holidH3205 →496 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
עֻזִּֽי׃Uzzi
ʾuziH5813 →11 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 7:4; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.