“ Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons. ”
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...
Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.
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 .
Of Mahli came Eleazar. — Literally, To Mahli, Eleazar; and there became not to him sons. (Comp. 1 Chronicles 23:22 .) The clan Eleazar did not branch out into new clans, but, being few in number...
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...
How particular the Holy Ghost is in the enumeration of the names of God's servants! Reader, depend upon it, the least and most inconsiderable in God's house is neither overlooked nor forgotten by him...
2 Chronicles 24:20
20 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah. 21 Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah....
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...
Genealogy of the Rest of Levi's Sons
1 Chronicles 23:22