“ The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, ”
The genealogies of David’s three chief singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan or Jeduthun. 1 Chronicles 6:32 They waited on their office - On the establishment and continuance of the choral servi...
PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). Genealogical Lists, together with Geographical and Historical Notes. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogi...
Ethan. The same as Jeduthun ( 1 Chronicles 9:16 . 1Ch 16:41. 1 Chronicles 25:1 ; 2 Chronicles 35:15 ). Fourteen generations.
The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, Ethan - or Jeduthun ( 1 Chronicles 9:16 ; 2 Chronicles 35:15 ). Shimei. This name seems to be inserted here by mistake, probably t...
Genealogies (continued) This chapter records the descendants of Levi, traces the line of the high priests to the captivity, and enumerates the cities of the Priests and Levites.
(39-43) The pedigree of Asaph the Gershonite, traced back through thirteen names to Levi. That of Heman names twenty ancestors for the same period of time. This is one more illustration of the common...
In this whole chapter, consisting of eighty-one verses, the one subject is the priestly tribe. This in itself reveals the standard from which the history was written. Judah, the kingly tribe, is the...
These verses give us the relation of the order respecting the psalmody in the house of the Lord. David himself is stilled, the sweet Psalmist of Israel: and it appears, from what is here said, that h...
1 Chronicles 6:39 .
Genealogies. B. C. 1015. 31 And these are they whom David set over the service of song...
No text from Poole on this verse.
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter refers wholly to tribe of Levi. Gives the family of Aaron, 1 Chronicles 6:1-15 ; the descendants of Gershom, Kohath, and Merari, 1 Chronicles 6:16-30 ; the pedigrees o...
1 Chronicles 6:4 . Eleazar begat Phinehas. A correct table of the Jewish highpriests would be very desirable to every lover of sacred literature. The best list I can collect is as follows: Aaron,...
EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 6:1-13 The tribe of Levi is now taken. The first three verses prepare the way for running rapidly down the line of high priest descent, from Aaron's son Eleazar to J...
The Line of Priests to the Captivity
1 Chronicles 2:6 ; 1 Chronicles 6:20 ; 1 Chronicles 6:21 ; 2 Samuel 16:5