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1 Chronicles 23:13

in 1 Chronicles 23

The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron and his descendants were set apart forever to consecrate the most holy things, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister before Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name forever.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, for ever, to burn incense before Jehovah, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, for ever.

KJV

The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 23

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Sanctify - That he might keep them from pollution: for these most holy things were polluted when they were touched by any other person. He and his - Not only his eldest sons the high-priests successively, but all his posterity or all the priests; for the works here following were not peculiar to the high-priest, but common to all the priests.

This site's exposition

Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel

on 1 Chronicles 23:12-17

Kohath's family carries the chapter's one narrative turn. Aaron is separated to sanctify the most holy things for ever, while his brother Moses is named only to record that Moses' own sons were counted as common Levites, no priesthood and no standing rank attached to the lawgiver's name. Chronicles states the contrast without comment, the same restraint Numbers already keeps toward Moses' family. Matthew Henry reads it as a mark of Moses' own self denial, the man who refused a nation built from his own line at Exodus 32:10 and is here counted level with the tribe he led.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): To sanctify the most holy things, to burn incense before the Lord, and to bless in his name; that work the Levites were not to meddle with, and yet they had work enough, and good work, according to that to which they were appointed,

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

To bless in his name - To bless the people by invoking the name of the Lord.

The words behind it

21 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.

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] sons of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • עַמְרָ֖םAmram

    ʾamramH601914 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֣ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175347 times

  • וּמֹשֶׁ֑הand Moses

    umoshehH4872765 times

  • וַיִּבָּדֵ֣לand he was separated

    vaiyibadelH91442 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֡ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175347 times

  • לְֽהַקְדִּישׁוֹ֩to consecrate it

    lehakdishoH6942171 times

  • קֹ֨דֶשׁa holy one of

    kodeshH6944469 times

  • קָֽדָשִׁ֤יםholy ones

    kadashimH6944469 times

  • הֽוּא־he

    hu'-H19311879 times

  • וּבָנָיו֙and descendants his

    uvanavH11214930 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • עוֹלָ֔םperpetuity

    olamH5769438 times

  • לְהַקְטִיר֩to make smoke

    lehaktirH6999

  • לִפְנֵ֨י<to> before

    lifneiH64402123 times

  • יְהוָ֧הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • לְשָׁרְת֛וֹto serve him

    lesharetoH833497 times

  • וּלְבָרֵ֥ךְand to bless

    ulevarekhH1288330 times

  • בִּשְׁמ֖וֹin name his

    bishmoH8034864 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • עוֹלָֽם׃perpetuity

    olamH5769438 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 Samuel 2:28

    And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 28:1

      “Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.

    • Leviticus 8:7–8

      He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He tied the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened…

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 21:5

    And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling in every…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 10:8

      At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in…

    • Malachi 2:7

      For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.

    • Deuteronomy 19:17

      both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.

    • Deuteronomy 18:5

      For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.

  • Through

    Exodus 6:20

    And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 2:1–2

      Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,

    • Numbers 26:59

      and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.

About 1 Chronicles

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