1 Chronicles 24:10
in 1 Chronicles 24the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
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the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
KJV
The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 24
Commentary
3 notes on this verseIf you of the brotherhood would take delight in hearing who that Abijah was from whose priestly division it is said that Zechariah derived his rank, he was the high priest during the time of King David. By the Lord's order, Aaron was the first …
This site's exposition
the first lot came forth
on 1 Chronicles 24:7-13
The twenty-four lots run through both priestly houses mixed together rather than kept apart, so a name's place in the list carries no rank of honor. The eighth lot falls to Abijah, and Luke 1:5 introduces Zacharias the father of John the Baptist as a priest of the course of Abia, the same rotation set here centuries before Christ. This administrative roster is the machine that dates the New Testament's opening scene, since Zacharias was serving his division's turn in the temple when Gabriel met him at the altar.
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), which is mentioned ( Luke i. 5 ) as the course which Zechariah was of, the father of John the Baptist, by which it appears that these courses which David now settled, though interrupted perhaps in the bad reigns and long broken off by the captivity, yet continued in succession till the destruction of the second temple by the Romans.
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The words behind it
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לְהַקּוֹץ֙ | lehakotz | to <the> Hakkoz | H6976 → | |
| הַשְּׁבִעִ֔י | hashevii | the seventh | H7637 → | 98 times |
| לַאֲבִיָּ֖ה | laaviyah | to Abijah | H29 → | 25 times |
| הַשְּׁמִינִֽי׃ | hashemini | the eighth | H8066 → | 28 times |
לְהַקּוֹץ֙to <the> Hakkoz
lehakotzH6976 →
הַשְּׁבִעִ֔יthe seventh
hasheviiH7637 →98 times
לַאֲבִיָּ֖הto Abijah
laaviyahH29 →25 times
הַשְּׁמִינִֽי׃the eighth
hasheminiH8066 →28 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach 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
Luke 1:5In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.
it leads to
- Matthew 2:1
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
- 1 Chronicles 24:19
This was their appointed order for service when they entered the house of the LORD, according to the regulations prescribed for them by their forefather Aaron, as the LORD, the God of Israel, had…
- Nehemiah 12:4
Iddo, Ginnethon, Abijah,
- Nehemiah 12:17
of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin and of Moadiah, Piltai;
- Matthew 2:1
Through
Nehemiah 12:4Iddo, Ginnethon, Abijah,
it leads to
- Luke 1:5
In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.
- Luke 1:5
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Bede, Homilies on the Gospels 2.19; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.