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1 Chronicles 24:1

in 1 Chronicles 24

These were the divisions of the descendants of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And the courses of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

KJV

Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 24

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron,.... Into the classes or courses following: the sons of Aaron; Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar; 1Ch 6:3, these were the immediate sons of Aaron; but the division or distribution of them into classes are of their posterity in the times of David, who descended from the two latter.

This site's exposition

these are the divisions of

on 1 Chronicles 24:1-3

Aaron had four sons, but Nadab and Abihu die without children under the fire of Leviticus 10, so the priesthood David organizes here descends through Eleazar and Ithamar alone. David pairs Zadok from Eleazar's line with Ahimelech from Ithamar's to distribute the courses, the same two men Chronicles later credits with helping number the singers at 1 Chr 25:1. Some texts of Samuel name Abiathar rather than Ahimelech beside Zadok in David's day, a detail the commentators note without resolving it.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

And of the sons of Aaron The meaning is: These are the sons of Aaron, etc. according to their divisions.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 24:1:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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. 4 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

9 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.

  • וְלִבְנֵ֥יand to [the] descendants of

    velivneiH11214930 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֖ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175347 times

  • מַחְלְקוֹתָ֑םdivisions their

    machlekotamH425642 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] sons of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֔ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175347 times

  • נָדָב֙Nadab

    nadavH507020 times

  • וַאֲבִיה֔וּאand Abihu

    vaavihu'H3012 times

  • אֶלְעָזָ֖רEleazar

    ʾelazarH49972 times

  • וְאִיתָמָֽר׃and Ithamar

    veitamarH38521 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

    Exodus 6:23

    And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 6:3

      The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Ruth 4:19–20

      Hezron was the father of Ram, Ram was the father of Amminadab,

    • Numbers 2:3

      On the east side, toward the sunrise, the divisions of Judah are to camp under their standard:

    • 1 Chronicles 2:10

      Ram was the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, a leader of the descendants of Judah.

    • Numbers 1:7

      from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;

  • Through

    Numbers 26:60

    Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar were born to Aaron,

    it leads to

    • Numbers 3:2

      These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, then Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

  • Through

    Numbers 3:2

    These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, then Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 6:23

      And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 23:6

    Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 8:14

      In keeping with the ordinances of his father David, Solomon appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, and the Levites for their duties to offer praise and to minister before the priests…

About 1 Chronicles

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