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1 Chronicles 6:13

in 1 Chronicles 6

Shallum was the father of Hilkiah, Hilkiah was the father of Azariah,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,

KJV

And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,

This verse in 1 Chronicles 6

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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.

This site's exposition

Eleazar was the father of Phinehas

on 1 Chronicles 6:4-15

The priestly line runs from Aaron's grandson Phinehas through Zadok, who served David and Solomon, down to Jehozadak. Barnes flags a gap between Amariah and Hilkiah, three generations for a span the list of Judah's kings puts near two hundred years. The priesthood ends in Babylon as the kingdom did.

This site's exposition

Shallum was the father of Hilkiah

Hilkiah was high priest under Josiah and found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD (2 Kings 22:8). His find set off Josiah's reform and the Passover of 2 Kings 23:21 to 23. His grandson Seraiah was the last high priest before the exile.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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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The words behind it

8 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.

  • וְשַׁלּוּם֙and Shallum

    veshalumH7967 →27 times

  • הוֹלִ֣ידhe fathered

    holidH3205 →496 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • חִלְקִיָּ֔הHilkiah

    chilkiyahH2518 →34 times

  • וְחִלְקִיָּ֖הand Hilkiah

    vechilkiyahH2518 →34 times

  • הוֹלִ֥ידhe fathered

    holidH3205 →496 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • עֲזַרְיָֽה׃Azariah

    ʾazaryahH5838 →49 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

    2 Kings 22:4

    “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 12:4

      Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house…

    • 1 Chronicles 9:11

      Azariah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the chief official of God’s temple;

    • 1 Chronicles 26:13–19

      They cast lots for each gate, according to their families, young and old alike.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 35:8

    His officials also contributed willingly to the people and priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the administrators of the house of God, gave the priests 2,600 Passover offerings and 300 bulls.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 29:31–33

      Then Hezekiah said, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings,…

    • 2 Corinthians 8:12

      For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

    • Acts 5:26

      At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.

    • Ezra 7:16

      together with all the silver and gold you may find in all the province of Babylon, as well as the freewill offerings of the people and priests to the house of their God in…

    • Nehemiah 7:70–72

      Some of the heads of the families contributed to the project. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments.

Where this verse is studied

What the record shows

1 entry
  • Azariah — attested in contemporary inscriptionundisputed

    City of David bulla of 'Azariah son of Hilkiah'

    Biblical figure (High priest (Josiah's reign), 640/639-609 BC) identified in extra-biblical epigraphy.

    Counterpoint: The seal names no office, and Azariah was one of the most common names in Judah. Tsvi Schneider's own publication of the bulla put a question mark in its title, 'Azariahu Son of Hilkiahu (High Priest?),' since tying this man to the priestly line of 1 Chronicles 6 rests on the name pair alone.

About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Berean Standard Bible, 2 Kings 22:8; 2 Kings 23:21 to 23; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.