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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief. Of the posterity of Gershom in the times of David, called Shubael, 1 Chronicles 24:20, the Targum makes him to be the same with Jonathan, Judges 18:30. (l) (l) So in Hieron. Trad. Heb. in Paralipom. fol. 84. c.
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And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah the chief,.... The first and only begotten, as it follows: and Eliezer had none other sons; before nor after him: but the sons of Rehabiah were very many; or greatly multiplied; not, as the Targum says, above 600,000; the number of Israel, as the Jewish writers (m) fancy; which they gather from Exodus 1:7, and...
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Of the sons of Izhar,.... Another son of Kohath, the son of Levi, 1 Chronicles 23:12. Shelomith the chief; the principal descendant of Izhar at this time.
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Ver. 19-21. Of the sons of Hebron,.... A third son of Kohath, 1 Chronicles 23:12, Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth: of the sons of Uzziel; another son of Kohath, 1 Chronicles 23:12, Micah the first, Jesiah the second: the sons of Merari, Mahli and Mushi, Exodus 6:19, the sons of Mahli, Eleazar and...
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[See comments on 1 Chronicles 23:19].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 1 Chronicles 23:19].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters,.... And so none to succeed him in his office and service: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them; married them, their uncle's sons, their own cousins.
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And the sons of Mushi,.... The other son of Merari: Mahli; so called from his uncle, his father's brother: and Eder and Jerimoth, three; mentioned again 1 Chronicles 24:30.
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These were the sons of Levi, after the house of their fathers,.... According to the three classes of them, as descending from the three sons of Levi: [even] the chief of the fathers; or heads of families: as they were counted by number of names by their polls; or according to their heads, one by one: that did the work for the service of the house...
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For David said,.... As a reason why he ordered a new account to be taken: the Lord God of Israel hath given rest unto his people: from all their enemies round about, and settled rest in the land, so that there was no danger of being carried captive, as they were time after time in the days of the Judges, and whereby they became more numerous: that...
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And also unto the Levites,.... Or with respect to them: they shall no more carry the tabernacle: on their shoulders, from place to place, as they had done: nor any vessels of it for the service thereof; and so the service of it did not require men at their full strength, but such as were but twenty years of age might be employed in it.
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For by the last words of David,.... Or therefore by the last orders he gave before his death: the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above; as able and sufficient to do the work of their office.
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Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron,.... The priests: for the service of the house of the Lord; to assist them therein, and not to bear burdens as in times past; the Targum is, "wherefore the place of their habitations was by the side of the sons of Aaron, for the worship of the sanctuary of the Lord:'' in the courts, and in the...
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Both for the shewbread,.... Also to make and get that ready every week for the priests to set on the shewbread table, when they took off the other that had stood a week, see 1 Chronicles 9:32 and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried; to deliver out...
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And to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord,.... The office of others of them was to sing the praises of God, both vocally and with instruments of music, at the time of the morning sacrifice: and likewise at even; at the time of the evening sacrifice, by way of thankfulness for the mercies of the night and of the day.
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And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the Lord,.... This was the work of the priests to offer such sacrifices, and not the Levites; but the meaning is, according to the Targum, and so Kimchi, that these not only sung the praises of God morning and evening, but at all times when burnt offerings were offered to the Lord; besides, some of them...
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And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation,.... That no unclean persons entered into it, and that none of the vessels were carried out of it; this was the business of the porters: and the charge of the holy place; of things that belonged unto it, the vessels in it, and what was requisite for it, and used there: and...
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INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 24 This chapter relates the distribution David made of the priests into twenty four classes or courses, and which were observed by lot, and each course had an head or principal man over it, 1 Chronicles 24:1 and of a like distribution of the Levites into the same number of courses, to attend the priests in theirs, 1...
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Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron,.... Into the classes or courses following: the sons of Aaron; Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar; 1 Chronicles 6:3, these were the immediate sons of Aaron; but the division or distribution of them into classes are of their posterity in the times of David, who descended from the two latter.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 observes, had their brethren left children, they would have come into the office before them.