1 Chronicles 6:9
in 1 Chronicles 6Ahimaaz was the father of Azariah, Azariah was the father of Johanan,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,
KJV
And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Ahimaaz begat Azariah - It must, apparently, be this Azariah, and not the son of Johanan 1Ch 6:10, who was high priest at the dedication of Solomon’s Temple. For Zadok, who lived into the reign of Solomon 1Ki 4:4 cannot have been succeeded by a great-great-grandson. The notice in 1Ch 6:10, which is attached to the second Azariah, must, beyond a doubt, belong properly to the first.
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
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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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), who was the son of Ahimaaz, and that he was the priest who first officiated in Solomon's temple. Some other of the families of the Levites are here accounted for.
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The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַאֲחִימַ֙עַץ֙ | vaachimaatz | and Ahimaaz | H290 → | 15 times |
| הוֹלִ֣יד | holid | he fathered | H3205 → | 496 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עֲזַרְיָ֔ה | ʾazaryah | Azariah | H5838 → | 49 times |
| וַעֲזַרְיָ֖ה | vaazaryah | and Azariah | H5838 → | 49 times |
| הוֹלִ֥יד | holid | he fathered | H3205 → | 496 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יוֹחָנָֽן׃ | yochanan | Johanan | H3110 → | 22 times |
וַאֲחִימַ֙עַץ֙and Ahimaaz
vaachimaatzH290 →15 times
הוֹלִ֣ידhe fathered
holidH3205 →496 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
עֲזַרְיָ֔הAzariah
ʾazaryahH5838 →49 times
וַעֲזַרְיָ֖הand Azariah
vaazaryahH5838 →49 times
הוֹלִ֥ידhe fathered
holidH3205 →496 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יוֹחָנָֽן׃Johanan
yochananH3110 →22 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About 1 Chronicles
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.