1 Chronicles 6:10
in 1 Chronicles 6Johanan was the father of Azariah, who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Johanan begat Azariah (he it is that executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem),
KJV
And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest’s office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6
Commentary
7 notes on this verseJohanan - Supposed to be the same as Jehoiada. Executed the priest’s office - Probably this refers to the dignified manner in which Azariah opposed King Uzziah, who wished to invade the priest’s office, and offer incense in the temple. See 2Ch 26:17, 2Ch 26:18.
This site's exposition
Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua
on 1 Chronicles 6:4-15
The priestly line runs unbroken from Aaron's grandson Phinehas, whose zeal is remembered in Numbers 25, through Zadok who served David and Solomon, down to Jehozadak, who goes into captivity at verse 15 when the Lord carries Judah and Jerusalem away by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. Barnes flags a gap between Amariah and Hilkiah, three generations recorded for a span the list of Judah's kings shows lasted closer to two hundred years. The office keeps its own exile ledger alongside the throne David was promised, ending in Babylon exactly as the kingdom did.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
Commentary on Chapter VI 10. The priest's office - So did all the rest, but it is implied that he did it worthily, he filled his place, and valiantly discharged his office in Uzziah's time. Solomon built - In Solomon's temple; so called to distinguish it from the second temple which was built or in building when these books were written.
Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam, we have known much more of than their names, and cannot pass them over here without remembering that this was that Moses and Aaron whom God honoured in making them instruments of Israel's deliverance and settlement and figures of him that was to come, Moses as a prophet and Aaron as a priest.
All these here named were not high priests; for, in the time of the judges, that dignity was, upon some occasion or other, brought into the family of Ithamar, of which Eli was; but in Zadok it returned again to the right line. Of Azariah it is here said (
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), He it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built. It is supposed that this was that Azariah who bravely opposed the presumption of king Uzziah when he invaded the priest's office ( 2 Chron. xxvi.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
he it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem--It is doubtful whether the person in favor of whom this testimony is borne be Johanan or Azariah.
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
The sons of Elkanah: his son Zophai, etc. Each of these is a son of the one before.
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. 5 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְיוֹחָנָ֖ן | veyochanan | and Johanan | H3110 → | 22 times |
| הוֹלִ֣יד | holid | he fathered | H3205 → | 496 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עֲזַרְיָ֑ה | ʾazaryah | Azariah | H5838 → | 49 times |
| ה֚וּא | hu' | he | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | [was [the] one] who | H834 → | 5497 times |
| כִּהֵ֔ן | kihen | he served as a priest | H3547 → | |
| בַּבַּ֕יִת | babayit | in the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾasher- | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| בָּנָ֥ה | banah | he had built | H1129 → | 376 times |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה | shelomoh | Solomon | H8010 → | 291 times |
| בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ | birushalim | in Jerusalem | H3389 → | 643 times |
וְיוֹחָנָ֖ןand Johanan
veyochananH3110 →22 times
הוֹלִ֣ידhe fathered
holidH3205 →496 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
עֲזַרְיָ֑הAzariah
ʾazaryahH5838 →49 times
ה֚וּאhe
hu'H1931 →1879 times
אֲשֶׁ֣ר[was [the] one] who
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
כִּהֵ֔ןhe served as a priest
kihenH3547 →
בַּבַּ֕יִתin the house
babayitH1004 →2046 times
אֲשֶׁר־which
ʾasher-H834 →5497 times
בָּנָ֥הhe had built
banahH1129 →376 times
שְׁלֹמֹ֖הSolomon
shelomohH8010 →291 times
בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃in Jerusalem
birushalimH3389 →643 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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
2 Chronicles 3:1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the…
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 21:18
Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Genesis 22:14
And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
- Genesis 22:2
“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will…
- 1 Chronicles 22:1
Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
- 1 Kings 6:1–14
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over…
- 1 Chronicles 21:18
Through
2 Chronicles 3:4The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
it leads to
- Acts 3:11
While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomon’s Colonnade.
- John 10:23
and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.
- Acts 5:12
The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.
- Acts 3:11
About 1 Chronicles
Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.