King James Version
What Does 1 Chronicles 24:7 Mean?
“Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,”
Context
5
Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
6
And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them 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: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar. principal: Heb. house of the father
7
Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
8
The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
9
The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(7-10) The order of the twenty-four classes of priests, as decided by the drawings. We have no means of discovering to which of the lines individual clans belonged, whether to that of Eleazar or to that of Ithamar.
(7) **Jehoiarib . . . Jedaiah.**—See 1Chronicles 9:10. The Maccabean princes were of the house of Jehoiarib (1 Maccabees 2:1).
**Came forth.**—From the urn (Joshua 16:1; Joshua 19:1).
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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