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Complete Jewish Bible

1 Chronicles 24:1

The divisions of the descendants of Aharon were as follows: The sons of Aharon: Nadav, Avihu, El‘azar and Itamar.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aaron;   Eleazar (Eleazer);   Ithamar;   Priest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zacharias;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Courses;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abihu;   Chronicles, I;   Genealogy;   Nadab;   Priests and Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lots ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Abihu ;   Ithamar ;   Nadab ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abia course of;   Nadab;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Division;   Nadab;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Priest;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The divisions of the descendants of Aaron were as follows: Aaron’s sons were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Hebrew Names Version
The courses of the sons of Aharon [were these]. The sons of Aharon: Nadav and Avihu, El`azar and Itamar.
King James Version
Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
English Standard Version
The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
New Century Version
These were the groups of Aaron's sons: Aaron's sons were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
New English Translation
The divisions of Aaron's descendants were as follows: The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Amplified Bible
The divisions of the descendants of Aaron were these: the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
New American Standard Bible
Now the divisions of the descendants of Aaron were these: the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
World English Bible
The courses of the sons of Aaron [were these]. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Geneva Bible (1587)
These are also the diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron: The sonnes of Aaron were Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now the divisions of the sons of Aaron were these: the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Berean Standard Bible
These were the divisions of the descendants of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Contemporary English Version
Aaron's descendants were then divided into work groups. Aaron had four sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Darby Translation
And the divisions of the sons of Aaron: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Easy-to-Read Version
These were the groups of Aaron's sons: Aaron's sons were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
George Lamsa Translation
NOW these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Good News Translation
These are the groups to which the descendants of Aaron belong. Aaron had four sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Lexham English Bible
And as for the sons of Aaron, these were their divisions. The sons of Aaron were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Literal Translation
And these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This was ye ordinaunce of the childre of Aaron. The children of Aaron were, Nadab, Abihu, Eleasar and Ithamar.
American Standard Version
And the courses of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Bible in Basic English
Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
These are the deuisions of the sonnes of Aaro. The sonnes of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the courses of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
King James Version (1611)
Now these are the diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron. The sonnes of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they number the sons of Aaron in their division, Nadab, and Abiud, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
English Revised Version
And the courses of the sons of Aaron [were these]. The sons of Aaron; Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe to the sones of Aaron these porciouns schulen be; the sones of Aaron weren Nadab, and Abyud, Eleazar, and Ythamar;
Update Bible Version
And the courses of the sons of Aaron [were these]. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now [these are] the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
New King James Version
Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
New Living Translation
This is how Aaron's descendants, the priests, were divided into groups for service. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
New Life Bible
These were the family groups of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
New Revised Standard
The divisions of the descendants of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, the sons of Aaron, had their courses, - the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now these were the divisions of the sons of Aaron: The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Revised Standard Version
The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abi'hu, Elea'zar, and Ith'amar.
Young's Literal Translation
And to the sons of Aaron [are] their courses: sons of Aaron [are] Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar,
THE MESSAGE
The family of Aaron was grouped as follows: Aaron's sons were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Nadab and Abihu died before their father and left no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar filled the office of priest. David assigned Zadok from the family of Eleazar and Ahimelech from the family of Ithamar and assigned them to separate divisions for carrying out their appointed ministries. It turned out that there were more leaders in Eleazar's family than in Ithamar's and so they divided them proportionately: sixteen clan leaders from Eleazar's family and eight clan leaders from Ithamar's family. They assigned the leaders by lot, treating both families alike, for there were officials of the sanctuary and officials of God among both the Eleazar and Ithamar families.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now the divisions of the descendants of Aaron were these: the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Contextual Overview

1 The divisions of the descendants of Aharon were as follows: The sons of Aharon: Nadav, Avihu, El‘azar and Itamar. 2 But Nadav and Avihu died before their father and had no children; therefore El‘azar and Itamar functioned as the cohanim. 3 David, together with Tzadok from the descendants of El‘azar, and Achimelekh from the descendants of Itamar, arranged them in divisions for service. 4 There were more men who were chiefs found among the descendants of El‘azar than among the descendants of Itamar; therefore there were sixteen divisions of the descendants of El‘azar, headed by clan leaders, and eight divisions of the descendants of Itamar, according to their clans. 5 They were assigned [periods of service] by lot, the one group equally with the other, since both the descendants of El‘azar and the descendants of Itamar had officers of the sanctuary and officers of God. 6 Sh'ma‘yah the son of N'tan'el the secretary, one of the L'vi'im, recorded them in the presence of the king, the officers, Tzadok the cohen, Achimelekh the son of Evyatar, and the clan leaders of the cohanim and of the L'vi'im — with two clan divisions taken from El‘azar for each one from Itamar. 7 The first lot drawn was for Y'hoyariv, the second for Y'da‘yah, 8 the third for Harim, the fourth for S‘orim, 9 the fifth for Malkiyah, the sixth for Miyamin, 10 the seventh for Hakotz, the eighth for Aviyah,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the divisions: 1 Chronicles 23:6, *marg.

The sons: 1 Chronicles 6:3, Exodus 6:23, Exodus 28:1, Leviticus 10:1-6, Numbers 3:2, Numbers 26:60

Reciprocal: Numbers 26:61 - General 1 Chronicles 6:50 - Eleazar 1 Chronicles 24:19 - under Aaron 1 Chronicles 28:13 - the courses 1 Chronicles 28:21 - the courses 2 Chronicles 5:11 - wait by course 2 Chronicles 7:6 - the priests 2 Chronicles 8:14 - the courses 2 Chronicles 23:8 - the courses 2 Chronicles 35:2 - charges Ezra 7:5 - Eleazar Ezra 8:2 - Phinehas Matthew 16:21 - chief priests Matthew 21:23 - the chief priests Luke 20:1 - the chief

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation, I will bless you, and I will make your name great; and you are to be a blessing.
Genesis 13:2
Avram became wealthy, with much cattle, silver and gold.
Genesis 18:11
Avraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years; Sarah was past the age of childbearing.
Genesis 21:5
(v) Avraham was one hundred years old when his son Yitz'chak [laughter] was born to him.
Genesis 24:1
By now Avraham was old, advanced in years; and Adonai had blessed Avraham in everything.
Genesis 24:3
because I want you to swear by Adonai , God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from among the women of the Kena‘ani, among whom I am living;
Genesis 24:35
Adonai has greatly blessed my master, so that he has grown wealthy. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, camels and donkeys.
Genesis 25:20
Yitz'chak was forty years old when he took Rivkah, the daughter of B'tu'el the Arami from Paddan-Aram and sister of Lavan the Arami, to be his wife.
Genesis 49:25
by the God of your father, who will help you, by El Shaddai, who will bless you with blessings from heaven above, blessings from the deep, lying below, blessings from the breasts and the womb.
1 Kings 1:1
King David grew old, the years took their toll, and he couldn't get warm even when they covered him with bedclothes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXIV

David divides the families of Eleazar and Ithamar, by lot,

into twenty-four courses, 1-19.

How the rest of the sons of Levi were disposed of, 20-31.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXIV


 
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