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1 Chronicles 9:11

in 1 Chronicles 9

Azariah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the chief official of God’s temple;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;

KJV

And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;

This verse in 1 Chronicles 9

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And Azariah the son of Hilkiah,.... That is, the son of Azariah, whose name was Seraiah, see 1Ch 6:13, whose pedigree is traced up from Hilkiah through Meshullam, called Shallum, 1Ch 6:12. Zadok, Meraioth, to Ahitub: the ruler of the house of God; high priest in it; which is to be understood of Ahitub, and not of Azariah or Seraiah in the time of Ezra; for Joshua was then high priest.

This site's exposition

From the priests

on 1 Chronicles 9:10-16

Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, and Jachin are three of the twenty-four priestly courses set out in 1 Chronicles 24: Jehoiarib first, Jedaiah second, Jachin twenty-first. The returned priesthood thus takes up an order older than the exile. The Levites named through verse 16 trace back to Merari and to Asaph.

This site's exposition

Azariah son of Hilkiah

Nehemiah 11:11 has Seraiah where this verse has Azariah, and Meshullam here is the Shallum of 1 Chronicles 6:12 to 13. Clarke takes the chief official as the high priest's deputy, since Jeshua held the high priesthood; Gill applies the title to Ahitub. The line is Zadok's.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

) not the chief ruler, for Joshua was then the high priest, but the sagan, and the next under him, his deputy, who perhaps applied more diligently to the business than the high priest himself. In the house of God it is requisite that there be rulers, not to make new laws, but to take care that the laws of God be duly observed by priests as well as people.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The ruler of the house of God - The high priest at this time was Jeshua the son of Jozadak, (Ezr 3:8), and Seraiah, (Neh 11:11), called here Azariah, was the ruler of the house; the person next in authority to the high priest, and who probably had the guard of the temple and command of the priests, Levites, etc. It is likely that the person here was the same as is called the second priest, 2Ki 25:18 (note), who was the sagan or high priest’s deputy. See the note there.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וַעֲזַרְיָ֨הand Azariah

    vaazaryahH5838 →49 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H1121 →4930 times

  • חִלְקִיָּ֜הHilkiah

    chilkiyahH2518 →34 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • מְשֻׁלָּ֣םMeshullam

    meshulamH4918 →25 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • צָד֗וֹקZadok

    tzadokH6659 →53 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • מְרָיוֹת֙Meraioth

    merayotH4812 →7 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אֲחִיט֔וּבAhitub

    ʾachituvH285 →15 times

  • נְגִ֖יד[the] leader of

    negidH5057 →45 times

  • בֵּ֥ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ ס<the> God

    haelohimH430 →2601 times

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

The walk

8 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

    2 Kings 23:4

    Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 21:7

      Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in…

    • 2 Kings 21:3

      For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped…

    • 2 Chronicles 33:3

      For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of…

    • 2 Kings 25:18

      The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.

    • 2 Chronicles 34:3–4

      In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem…

  • Through

    Acts 5:24

    When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.

    it leads to

    • Acts 4:1

      While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

    • Acts 5:26

      At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.

  • Through

    Numbers 4:33

    This is the service of the Merarite clans according to all their work at the Tent of Meeting, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”

    it leads to

    • Numbers 4:28

      This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the Tent of Meeting, and their duties shall be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Berean Standard Bible, Nehemiah 11:11; 1 Chronicles 6:12 to 13; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.