“ And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs: ”
The writer evidently had before him Joshua 21 , which he followed, as to its matter, closely. In some cases he perhaps modernised the ancient names ( 1 Chronicles 6:58 , 1 Chronicles 6:60 , 1 Ch...
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...
And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs:
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.
(54-81) The Levitical cities, beginning with those of the Aavonites, the principal branch of the Kohathite clan. This list deals with the same topic as Joshua 21:3-40 , with which, upon the whole, i...
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...
The sacred Scripture, having given a faithful register of the Levites names, in those verses relates their dwelling-places. Jacob, when dying, foretold that Levi should be divided in Jacob, and scatt...
1 Chronicles 6:54 .
The Cities of the Levites. B. C. 1444. 54 Now these are their dwelling places throug...
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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 Cities of the Levites
1 Chronicles 6:75 ; Joshua 19:25 ; Joshua 19:26 ; Joshua 19:34 ; Joshua 21:31