1 Esdræ 24:6

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Descripsitque eos Semeias filius Nathanaël scriba Levites, coram rege et principibus, et Sadoc sacerdote, et Ahimelech filio Abiathar, principibus quoque familiarum sacerdotalium, et Leviticarum: unam domum, quæ ceteris præerat, Eleazar: et alteram domum, quæ sub se habebat ceteros, Ithamar.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
et regnavit Joachin filius ejus pro eo.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Descripsitque eos Semeias filius Nathanael scriba Levites coram rege et principibus et Sadoc sacerdote et Achimelech filio Abiathar, principibus quoque familiarum sacerdotalium et leviticarum: unam familiam pro Eleazar et unam pro Ithamar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the scribe: 1 Kings 4:3, 2 Chronicles 34:13, Ezra 7:6, Nehemiah 8:1, Matthew 8:19, Matthew 13:52, Matthew 23:1, Matthew 23:2

principal household: Heb. house of the father, 1 Chronicles 23:24

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 24:3 - Zadok 1 Chronicles 24:31 - lots 1 Chronicles 25:1 - the captains 2 Chronicles 5:2 - the chief 2 Chronicles 23:2 - the chief of Nehemiah 12:12 - the chief

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe,.... The Targum is, Moses the chief scribe, so called: one

of the Levites wrote them: the lots, and the names upon them, put into the urn, and as they came out, which was first, second, c. and this was done

before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites and in this public manner, before such great personages, and in the presence of those that were interested in the affair, that it might appear plainly no fraudulent methods were taken, and that there might be no suspicion of any:

one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one for Ithamar; the sense of Jarchi as above, and other Jewish writers, is, that one was added to each family of Eleazar, and so made sixteen, and Ithamar's were retained, and left as at first, eight: but the sense is, that first one family of Eleazar was taken, and then one of Ithamar's family, and then one of Eleazar's again, and so on until sixteen were gone through; and then the other eight were divided under so many heads of the family of Eleazar.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wrote them before the king - i. e., “wrote down their names as the lots were drawn forth.”

Ahimelech the son of Abiathar - A wrong reading. It should be “Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech.” See the 2 Samuel 8:17 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 24:6. And Shemaiah — "Moses the great scribe, who is called Shemaiah, the son of Nethaneel, of the tribe of Levi, wrote them down." - T.

One principal household - for Eleazar — The family of Eleazar was the most illustrious of the sacerdotal families, because Eleazar was the first-born of Aaron, Ithamar's family was the second in order and dignity; therefore one of the principal families of Eleazar was first taken, and then one of Ithamar's, and thus alternately till the whole was finished.