And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.
And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.
And sons of Elkanah; Amasai and Ahimoth.
And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.
1 Chronicles — A post-exilic retelling of Israel's story through the Davidic line — genealogies from Adam to Saul, then David's reign reframed around temple preparation. The priestly history that answers the exile's question: what does it mean to return?
Voices1
Gershom, &c.--This repetition (see 1Ch 6:1) is made, as the historian here begins to trace the genealogy of the Levitical families who were not priests. The list is a long one, comprising the chiefs or heads of their several families until David's reign, who made a new and different classification of them by courses.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Exodus 6:24The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the clans of the Korahites.
leads to
The descendants of Kohath:
Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son.
Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of…
and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the congregation, who fought against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah who rebelled against the…
the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches3
Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the clans of the Korahites.
the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
