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Lutherbibel
1 Chronik 6:48
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Und ihre Brüder, die Leviten, waren für den gesamten Dienst der Wohnung des Hauses Gottes gegeben worden.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
brethren: 1 Chronicles 23:2-32, 1 Chronicles 25:1 - 1 Chronicles 26:32, Numbers 3:1 - Numbers 4:49, Numbers 8:5-26, Numbers 16:9, Numbers 16:10, Numbers 18:1-32
appointed: 1 Chronicles 12:28
Reciprocal: Numbers 3:38 - keeping Numbers 4:3 - to do 1 Chronicles 23:4 - twenty
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Their brethren also the Levites,.... Who were not skilled in singing, and employed in that service, even the rest of the Kohathites, Gershonites, and Merarites:
were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God; some were porters at the gates; others had the care of the vessels; others slew the beasts for sacrifices, flayed them, and cut them up, and brought the pieces to the altar of burnt offerings, for the priests to offer.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The genealogies of David’s three chief singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan or Jeduthun.
1 Chronicles 6:32
They waited on their office - On the establishment and continuance of the choral service in the temple, see 2 Chronicles 5:12, 2 Chronicles 29:27-30; 2 Chronicles 35:15.
1 Chronicles 6:33
Heman - In general Asaph takes precedence of Heman and Jeduthun, but here Heman is placed first, because his family, that of the Kohathites, had the highest priestly rank, being the family which furnished the high priests (see 1 Chronicles 6:2-15).
Shemuel - i. e. “Samuel.” Our translators have here given the Hebrew, while elsewhere they give uniformlv the Greek, form of the name. We learn by this genealogy that Heman was Samuel’s grandson.
1 Chronicles 6:39
His brother Asaph - Not “brother” in the ordinary sense of the term, since Asaph was the son of Berachiah, and a Gershonite, not a Kohathite. “Brother” here may mean “fellow-craftsman” (compare 1 Chronicles 25:7).
1 Chronicles 6:44
Ethan - Or Jeduthun (see the margin). Corruption will scarcely account for the two forms of the name, since Ethan is used persistently up to a certain point 1 Chronicles 15:19, after which we have uniformly “Jeduthun.” The case seems to be rather one in which a new name was taken after a while, which thenceforth superseded the old. Compare Abraham, Sarah, Joshua, Jehoiakim, Zedekiah, etc.
