“ The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, ”
The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to (c) Abijah, (c) Zachariah the father of John the Baptist was of this course or lot of Abia, ( Luke 1:5 ).
The courses of the priests (the sons of Aaron), twenty-four in number, took their turns in the service of the Temple, and each course cast lots for the particular place of service of each priest ( cf...
The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
The Courses of the Sons of Aaron 1. Divisions.. Aaron] i.e. courses of the priests, corresponding to the course of the Levites described in 1 Chronicles 23:6 .
(7-10) The order of the twenty-four classes of priests, as decided by the drawings. We have no means of discovering to which of the lines individual clans belonged, whether to that of Eleazar or to t...
With great care and perfect democracy of choice the courses of the priests were next set in order. There was a tactful mingling in the arrangement of the older and the younger men, so that in this hi...
The division and arrangement begins very properly in the house of Aaron; for Aaron himself was called of God. Hebrews 5:4 . And it was worthy observation that the appointment of this man's family to...
2 Chronicles 24:7
The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, Ver. 10. The eighth to Abijah. ] John Baptist's father was of this course, Luk 1:5 but whether he were chief priest of this division, as also whether h...
The Courses of the Priests. B. C. 1015. 1 Now these are the divisions of the sons of A...
No text from Poole on this verse.
CRITICAL NOTES.] In this chapter we have divisions of the 24 orders of priests ( 1 Chronicles 24:1-19 ), and the classes of Levites who attended them in discharge of their sacred functions. 1 Chro...
1 Chronicles 24:5 . They were divided by lot, into twenty four courses. David might perhaps have interfered, and promoted one of each course to be the overseer of the other priests; but he did mor...
EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 24:1-13 The twenty-four classes of priests. 1 Chronicles 24:1 The Hebrew of this verse reads , And to the sons of Aaron, their divisions מַחְלְקוֹתָם ); the s...
The Divisions of the Priests
Luke 1:5 ; Nehemiah 12:17 ; Nehemiah 12:4