The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 6:12
(See above on 1 Chronicles 6:8 .) read more
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Shallum , called in 1 Chronicles 9:11 and Nehemiah 11:11 Meshullam. There are at fewest fifteen persons of this name. The present is named as ancestor of Ezra ( Ezra 7:2 ). Hillkiah . There are seven persons of this name. The present was the celebrated one of them all; and from three chief circumstances: read more
Azariah . The third occurrence of this name in this list. This person is found again in Ezra 2:1-70 :l, but is wanting in Nehemiah 11:11 . Seraiah ; found also in Nehemiah 11:11 , in a list which omits the preceding Azariah, and in Ezra 7:1 . The end of his high priesthood and of himself is recorded with that of Zephaniah ( 2 Kings 25:18 , 2 Kings 25:21 ), and (not the Seraiah, " the quiet prince," of Jeremiah 51:59-64 ) he is also spoken of in Jeremiah 52:24-27 . He was... read more
Jehozadak . He did not share the violent end of his father, nor did he attain his father's high priest office, but lived to the end a captive (see note on 1 Chronicles 6:4 ). Where this name occurs in Haggai and Zechariah, it is the same in the Hebrew as here, though Englished in the Authorized Version as Josedech. Where it occurs in Ezra and Nehemiah, the shorter form of Jozadak is found in the Hebrew as in the Authorized Version. read more
These verses have a re-enumeration of the three sons of Levi, and differ from the enumeration of 1 Chronicles 6:1 , in being followed by the sons of each of these three, and afterwards by the line of descendants from each, instead of by the sons of only one, Kohath, and his descendant in only one stem, the high priest stem, and with only one object. All these names agree with Exodus 6:17-19 and Numbers 3:17-20 (comp. also Numbers 3:21-36 with Numbers 26:57-60 ), with the trifling... read more
(A) These verses apparently give seven lineal descendants of Gershom, through his eldest son Libni . The question is whether this list of seven is part of the longer list of thirteen from Gershom ( 1 Chronicles 6:39-43 ). terminating with Asaph; and it seems impossible to decide the question satisfactorily. From the occurrence of the name Shimei in this latter, though in the wrong place, viz. after Jahath in the descending order, instead of before him, some think, Keil and Zockler among... read more
Korah (comp. Numbers 16:27 , Numbers 16:32 , Numbers 16:33 , with Numbers 26:9-11 ). From Exodus 6:24 we also learn that the throe next in lineal succession to Korah, were Assir, Elkanah, and Ebiasaph, or Abiasaph; though Elkanah and Assir are omitted from verse 37, in the ascending line. read more
(B) These verses give descendants, probably twenty-one in number, from Levi, through his second son, Kohath, to Joel, eldest son of Samuel and (verse 33) father of Heman. The descendants of Kohath through his eldest son, Amram, have been given from verses 3-15. But the descendants now to he spoken of are through another son, here called Am-minadab, a name not appearing among the four of verse 2, but apparently standing for the Izhar of that verse. For he is said to have a son Korah, by whom,... read more
Ahimaaz begat Azariah - It must, apparently, be this Azariah, and not the son of Johanan 1 Chronicles 6:10, who was high priest at the dedication of Solomon’s Temple. For Zadok, who lived into the reign of Solomon 1 Kings 4:4 cannot have been succeeded by a great-great-grandson. The notice in 1 Chronicles 6:10, which is attached to the second Azariah, must, beyond a doubt, belong properly to the first. read more
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 6:11
Amariah . High priest in the reign of Jehoshaphat ( 2 Chronicles 19:11 ; see Smith's 'Bible Dictionary,' sub voce , 2). A step ascertainable as this helps to keep the line and chronology steady amid surrounding obscurity. read more