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King James Version (1611 Edition)

1 Chronicles 24:2

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: Therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the Priests office.

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 - Abihu;   Courses;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ithamar;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nadab;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abihu;   Caleb;   Chronicles, I;   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;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ith'amar;   Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abihu;   Eleazar;   Strange Fire;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - High Priest;   Nadab;   Priest;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and they had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
Hebrew Names Version
But Nadav and Avihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore El`azar and Itamar executed the Kohen's office.
King James Version
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
English Standard Version
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no children, so Eleazar and Ithamar became the priests.
New Century Version
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father did, and they had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as the priests.
New English Translation
Nadab and Abihu died before their father did; they had no sons. Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
Amplified Bible
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons; therefore Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
New American Standard Bible
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
World English Bible
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar & Ithamar executed the Priestes office.
Legacy Standard Bible
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests.
Berean Standard Bible
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father did, and they had no sons; so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
Contemporary English Version
But Nadab and Abihu died long before their father, without having any sons. That's why Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
Complete Jewish Bible
But Nadav and Avihu died before their father and had no children; therefore El‘azar and Itamar functioned as the cohanim.
Darby Translation
And Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priesthood.
Easy-to-Read Version
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father did. Nadab and Abihu had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as the priests.
George Lamsa Translation
But Nadab and Abihu died during the lifetime of their father Aaron, and had no children; therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priests office.
Good News Translation
Nadab and Abihu died before their father did, and left no descendants, so their brothers Eleazar and Ithamar became priests.
Lexham English Bible
And Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and they had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
Literal Translation
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and they had no sons. And Eleazar and Ithamar were priests.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Nadab and Abihu dyed before their fathers, and had no children. And Eleasar and Ithamar were prestes.
American Standard Version
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
Bible in Basic English
But Nadab and Abihu came to their end before their father, and had no children; so Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nadab also and Abihu dyed before their father, & had no children: But Eleazar, & Ithamar executed the priestes office.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children; therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Nadab and Abiud died before their father, and they had no sons: so Eleazar and Ithamar the sons of Aaron ministered as priests.
English Revised Version
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest office.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but Nadab and Abyud weren deed with out fre children bifor her fadir, and Eleazar and Ythamar weren set in presthod.
Update Bible Version
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no sons: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
Webster's Bible Translation
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priests' office.
New King James Version
And Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children; therefore Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests.
New Living Translation
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and they had no sons. So only Eleazar and Ithamar were left to carry on as priests.
New Life Bible
Nadab and Abihu died before their father died. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar became the religious leaders.
New Revised Standard
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no sons; so Eleazar and Ithamar became the priests.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
but Nadab and Abihu, died, before their father, and sons, had they none, - but Eleazar and Ithamar became priests;
Douay-Rheims Bible
But Nadab and Abiu died before their father, and had no children: so Eleazar, and Ithamar did the office of the priesthood.
Revised Standard Version
But Nadab and Abi'hu died before their father, and had no children, so Elea'zar and Ith'amar became the priests.
Young's Literal Translation
and Nadab dieth, and Abihu, in the presence of their father, and they had no sons, and Eleazar and Ithamar act as priests.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

Contextual Overview

1 Now these are the diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron. The sonnes of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: Therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the Priests office. 3 And Dauid distributed them, both Zadok of the sonnes of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sonnes of Ithamar, according to their offices in their seruice. 4 And there were moe chiefe men found of the sonnes of Eleazar, then of the sonnes of Ithamar: and thus were they diuided. Among the sonnes of Eleazar there were sixteene chiefe men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sonnes of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers. 5 Thus were they diuided by lot, one sort with another; for the gouernours of the Sanctuarie, and gouernours of the house of God, were of the sonnes of Eleazar, and of the sonnes of Ithamar. 6 And Shemaiah the sonne of Nathanael the Scribe, one of the Leuites, wrote them before the King and the Princes, and Zadok the Priest, and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar, and before the chiefe of the fathers of the priests and Leuites: one principall houshold being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar. 7 Now the first lot came foorth to Iehoiarib: the second to Iedaiah, 8 The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, 9 The fifth to Malchiiah, the sixth to Miiamin, 10 The seuenth to Hakkoz, the eight to Abiiah,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Nadab: Exodus 24:1, Exodus 24:9

died: Leviticus 10:2, Numbers 3:4, Numbers 26:61

Eleazar: Exodus 29:9, Leviticus 10:12, Numbers 16:39, Numbers 16:40, Numbers 18:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:23 - Nadab 1 Chronicles 6:3 - Nadab Luke 1:8 - he

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou giue me, seeing I goe childlesse? and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.
Genesis 24:4
But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne Isaac.
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said vnto him, Beware thou, that thou bring not my sonne thither againe.
Genesis 24:8
And if the woman wil not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt bee cleare from this my othe: onely bring not my sonne thither againe.
Genesis 24:9
And the seruant put his hand vnder the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
Genesis 24:10
And the seruant tooke ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, ( for all the goods of his master were in his hand) and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, vnto the citie of Nahor.
Genesis 44:1
And hee commaunded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the mens sackes with food, as much as they can carie, and put euery mans money in his sacks mouth.
Genesis 47:29
And the time drew nigh that Israel must die, and he called his sonne Ioseph, and said vnto him, If now I haue found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand vnder my thigh, and deale kindly and truely with mee, bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.
1 Chronicles 29:24
And all the princes and the mightie men, and all the sonnes likewise of king Dauid, submitted themselues vnto Solomon the King.
1 Timothy 5:17
Let the Elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 24:2. Nadab and Abihu died before their father — That is, during his lifetime.

Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. — These two served the office during the life of their father Aaron; after his death Eleazar succeeded in the high priesthood. And under Eli the high priest, the family of Ithamar re-entered into that office.


 
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