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1 Chronicles 15:11

in 1 Chronicles 15

David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,

KJV

And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,

This verse in 1 Chronicles 15

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

called for Zadok and Abiathar

on 1 Chronicles 15:11-12

David summons the two priests and the six family heads just numbered, and charges them to sanctify themselves before the ark is touched again. Nothing like this charge to sanctify is recorded before the ark went out on the cart in chapter 13; the ceremonial cleansing named here is new to this second attempt. The men addressed are called the chief of the fathers of the Levites, the same standing the roster of verses 4 through 10 has just established, so the command falls on named men rather than an anonymous class.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests,.... See 2Sa 8:17. and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab; the six chiefs before mentioned.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

To hakhinoti lo. This means: to the place asher hakhinoti lo (=that I have prepared for it).
Radak: Provence, 1160–1235 · Radak on I Chronicles 15:12:1, via Sefaria, The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וַיִּקְרָ֣אand he summoned

    vaiyikra'H7121733 times

  • דָוִ֔ידDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • לְצָד֥וֹק<to> Zadok

    letzadokH665953 times

  • וּלְאֶבְיָתָ֖רand <to> Abiathar

    uleevyatarH5430 times

  • הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֑יםthe priests

    hakohanimH3548750 times

  • וְלַלְוִיִּ֗םand <to> the Levites

    velalviyimH3881291 times

  • לְאֽוּרִיאֵ֤ל<to> Uriel

    leurielH2224 times

  • עֲשָׂיָה֙Asaiah

    ʾasayahH62228 times

  • וְיוֹאֵ֣לand Joel

    veyoelH310020 times

  • שְׁמַֽעְיָ֔הShemaiah

    shema'yahH809841 times

  • וֶאֱלִיאֵ֖לand Eliel

    veelielH44710 times

  • וְעַמִּינָדָֽב׃and Amminadab

    veaminadavH599213 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

    1 Chronicles 12:28

    and Zadok, a mighty young man of valor, with 22 commanders from his own family.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 6:8

      Ahitub was the father of Zadok, Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Chronicles 6:53

      Zadok his son, and Ahimaaz his son.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 8:17

      Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;

  • 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.

    it 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.

    • 1 Kings 4:4

      Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

  • Through

    2 Samuel 8:17

    Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 18:16

      Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was the scribe;

    • 1 Chronicles 16:39

      And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon

    • 1 Chronicles 24:3–4

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

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.