1 Chronicles 6:61; Joshua 21:20-26
The writer evidently had before him Joshua 21 , which he followed, as to its matter, closely. In some cases he perhaps modernised the ancient name...
PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). Genealogical Lists, together with Geographical and Historical Notes. These Chapter s form a general introduction to th...
And the residue. Supply Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6) thus: "[as for some] of the families", &c. cities of their coasts . the cities of...
And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.
Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tri...
Genealogies (continued) This chapter records the descendants of Levi, traces the line of the high priests to the captivity, and enumerates the cit...
(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...
And the residue of the families. — The Hebrew text can hardly mean this; and Joshua 21:20 shows that it is incorrect. The original text must have...
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 his...
The sacred Scripture, having given a faithful register of the Levites names, in those verses relates their dwelling-places. Jacob, when dying, foreto...
1 Chronicles 6:54 .
Had cities of their coasts Or, of their borders , that is, of their country contained within its borders: these cities were assigned the families...
The Cities of the Levites. B. C. 1444. ...
Of their coasts, or, of their borders , i.e. of their country contained within its borders, as that word is oft used, as hath been noted before.
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, a...
1 Chronicles 6:4 . Eleazar begat Phinehas. A correct table of the Jewish highpriests would be very desirable to every lover of sacred literature....
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...
The Cities of the Levites
And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath, so far as the remaining Kohathites were concerned, they had cities of their coasts out of the...
Coasts — Or, of their borders, of their country contained within its borders.
66 And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.