1 Chronicles 24:5-31
divided .... lots <01486 02505> [they divided by lot.]
officials ....... officials <08269> [the governors.]
scribe <05608> [the scribe.]
leaders ......... family <01 01004> [principal household. Heb. house of the father.]
Jehoiarib <03080> [Jehoiarib.]
[Joiarib. to Jedaiah.]
Harim <02766> [Harim.]
Mijamin <04326> [Mijamin.]
[Miniamin.]
Abijah <029> [Abijah.]
As the Evangelist Luke mentions the course of Abia, it is evident that these courses of the priests, established by David, no doubt under Divine direction, were continued, with some alterations, till the days of Christ: these records must therefore have been very useful after the Babylonian captivity.
[Abia.]
[Jeshuah.]
Eliashib <0475> [Eliashib.]
Immer <0564> [Immer.]
assigned <06486> [the orderings.]
given ...... Aaron <03027 0175> [under Aaron.]
Amram <06019> [Amram.]
Shubael ............ Shubael <07619> [Shubael.]
[Shebuel.]
Rehabiah ...... Rehabiah <07345> [Rehabiah.]
Isshiah <03449> [Isshiah.]
Probably Isshiah is a contracted form, or a corruption, of Jeshaiah.
[Jeshaiah.]
Izharites <03325> [Izharites.]
The original is uniformly Izharites.
[Izeharites. Shelomoth.]
The variation of [Shel“mŒyth ] Shelomith, and Shelomoth, arises from the mutation of [Vƒv,] {wav} and [Y“wd,] {yood}.
[Shelomith.]
Jeriah <03404> [Jeriah.]
The following variations exist only in the translation, the original being uniformly [YerŒyƒh ] or [YerŒyƒh–w ] Jerijah, [MŒykƒh] Michah, and [YishshŒyƒh ] Isshiah.
[Jerijah.]
Micah ....... Micah <04318> [Michah.]
[Micah.]
Isshiah ....... Isshiah <03449> [Isshiah.]
[Jesiah. Zechariah.]
sons ...... Beno <01121> [sons.]
sons <01121> [who had no sons.]
Mushi <04187> [Mushi.]
lots <01486> [lots.]
leaders ............. oldest <07218> [even the principal.]
The whole company being ranged according to their families, with the proper number of divisions, the order of their courses was assigned them by lot, without respect to rank or seniority.
