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1 Chronicles 24:19

in 1 Chronicles 24

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 commanded him.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of Jehovah according to the ordinance given unto them by Aaron their father, as Jehovah, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

KJV

These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the Lord, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 24

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
These were the orderings ... - i. e., “this was the numerical order fixed for their ministerial attendance in the house of the Lord - an attendance which was after the manner determined for them by their forefather Aaron, according to instructions which he received from God.”

This site's exposition

The fifteenth to Bilgah

on 1 Chronicles 24:14-19

The roster runs to its twenty-fourth lot, Maaziah, and verse 19 closes it with a claim about its own authority, that this order was set as the LORD God of Israel had commanded Aaron, not invented by David for his own convenience. Only a few of these course names, Jedaiah, Harim and Immer among them, resurface in Ezra's list of priests who returned from exile, so the scheme David set up here served the second temple in reduced form. The chapter tells no story in this stretch of names; its case is the order itself, fair to every house whichever place it drew.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

These were the orderings of them,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, In Christ no difference is made between bond and free, elder and younger. The younger brethren, if they be faithful and sincere, shall be no less acceptable to Christ than the principal fathers.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Under Aaron their father - That is, they followed the order and plans laid down by Aaron during his lifetime.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

These are their appointment[s] to their service Those who are written here are the heads of the watches. Their appointments were over the watches.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 24:19:1, 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

15 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.

  • אֵ֣לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428746 times

  • פְקֻדָּתָ֞ם[were] group[s] their

    fekudatamH648632 times

  • לַעֲבֹדָתָ֗םfor service their

    laavodatamH5656145 times

  • לָב֤וֹאto go

    lavo'H9352568 times

  • לְבֵית־to [the] house of

    leveit-H10042046 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֔םaccording to ordinance their

    kemishpatamH4941422 times

  • בְּיַ֖דby [the] hand of

    beyadH30271618 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֣ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175347 times

  • אֲבִיהֶ֑םancestor their

    ʾavihemH11212 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֣רjust as

    kaasherH8345497 times

  • צִוָּ֔הוּhe had commanded him

    tzivahuH6680494 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵ֥י[the] God of

    ʾeloheiH4302601 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ פIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 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 Corinthians 14:40

    But everything must be done in a proper and orderly manner.

    it leads to

    • Colossians 2:5

      For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.

    • Titus 1:5

      The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.

    • 1 Corinthians 14:26–33

      What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the…

    • 1 Corinthians 11:34

      If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result in judgment. And when I come, I will give instructions about the remaining matters.

    • Romans 13:13

      Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

  • Through

    Hebrews 7:11

    Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on this basis the people received the law), why was there still need for another priest to appear—one in the order of…

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 8:7

      For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second.

    • Galatians 2:21

      I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 9:25

    Their relatives came from their villages at fixed times to serve with them for seven-day periods.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 11:5

      and commanded them, “This is what you are to do: A third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall guard the royal palace,

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.