1 Chronicles 24:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. ”

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

But Nadab and Abihu died (a) before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. (a) While their father yet lived.
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

children . sons.
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. Nadab and Abihu died before their father - That is, during his lifetime....
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. Nadab and Abihu died before their father - i:e., not in his pres...
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 .
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father. — Leviticus 10:1-2 tells why: viz., because they offered “strange fire” before the Lord. (See also Numbers 3:4 , from which our text appears to be d...
1 Chronicles 24:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
1 Chronicles 24:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father ,.... While he was living, see Leviticus 10:1 and had no children, therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priests' office : otherwise, as Jarchi...
1 Chronicles 24:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. Ver. 2. But Nadab and Abihu died. ] And, as it is thought, in their d...
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

These are the divisions of the sons of Aaron The several branches into which that family was divided. Therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office Their brethren being dead, and lea...
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Courses of the Priests. B. C. 1015. 1 Now these are the divisions of the sons of A...
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. Were the only persons to whom and to whose families the execution of that office was committed.
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 24:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
1 Chronicles 24:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father. The death of Nadab and Abihu Learn: I. That sin inverts the natural order of things. “They died before their father.” II. That sin deprives o...
1 Chronicles 24:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
1 Chronicles 24:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Divisions of the Priests
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 24:1 ; Exodus 24:9 ; Exodus 29:9 ; Leviticus 10:12 ; Leviticus 10:2 ; Numbers 16:39 ; Numbers 16:40 ; Numbers 18:7 ; Numbers 26:61 ; Numbers 3:4
1 Chronicles 24:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Therefore, &c. — Were the only persons to whom the execution of that office was committed.

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Chronicles 24:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Chronicles 24:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Chronicles 24:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Chronicles 24:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Chronicles 24:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Chronicles 24:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 24:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes