1 Chronicles 6:15
in 1 Chronicles 6Jehozadak went into captivity when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
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ASV
And Jehozadak went into captivity, when Jehovah carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
KJV
And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the Lord carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Jehozadak - The meaning of the name is “Jehovah is righteous.” It has been noted as remarkable that the heads of both the priestly and the royal stock carried to Babylon should have had names (Zedekiah and Jehozadak) composed of the same elements, and assertive of the “justice of God,” which their sufferings showed forth so signally.
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 Awakening2 voices
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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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And these are the ones that David stationed, etc. when they returned it from the house of Obed Edom, as it is written (below:37): “And he left there before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, Asaph and his brothers to serve before the Ark constantly, etc.
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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וִיהוֹצָדָ֣ק | vihotzadak | and Jehozadak | H3087 → | |
| הָלַ֔ךְ | halakh | he went | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| בְּהַגְל֣וֹת | behaglot | when sent into exile | H1540 → | 186 times |
| יְהוָ֔ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יְהוּדָ֖ה | yehudah | Judah | H3063 → | 819 times |
| וִירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם | virushalim | and Jerusalem | H3389 → | 643 times |
| בְּיַ֖ד | beyad | by [the] hand of | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּֽר׃ ס | nevukhadnetzar | Nebuchadnezzar | H5019 → |
וִיהוֹצָדָ֣קand Jehozadak
vihotzadakH3087 →
הָלַ֔ךְhe went
halakhH1980 →1546 times
בְּהַגְל֣וֹתwhen sent into exile
behaglotH1540 →186 times
יְהוָ֔הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יְהוּדָ֖הJudah
yehudahH3063 →819 times
וִירוּשָׁלִָ֑םand Jerusalem
virushalimH3389 →643 times
בְּיַ֖דby [the] hand of
beyadH3027 →1618 times
נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּֽר׃ סNebuchadnezzar
nevukhadnetzarH5019 →
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
Haggai 1:14So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant…
it leads to
- Haggai 1:1
In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Hebrews 13:21
equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 2 Chronicles 36:22
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout…
- Haggai 1:1
Through
Haggai 1:1In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of…
it leads to
- Ezra 2:2
accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:
- Ezra 2:2
Through
2 Kings 25:21There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.
it leads to
- 2 Kings 23:27
For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My…
- Deuteronomy 28:64
Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you…
- 2 Kings 23:27
Through
2 Kings 25:18The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
it leads to
- Ezra 7:1
Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
- Jeremiah 21:1
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,
- Ezra 7:1
About 1 Chronicles
Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonPatriarchsJudahJacob's fourth son who pledges himself for Benjamin; the tribe that carries the scepter to Shiloh (49:10) and the line to Christ (…
- PlaceJerusalemJerusalemThe city David took from the Jebusites and made his capital, where Solomon built the temple, where Christ was crucified and rose,…
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.