Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 24:19

These [were] the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.

19. These were the orderings ] R.V. This was the ordering.

their manner, under Aaron ] R.V. the ordinance given unto them by the hand of Aaron.

the Lord God of Israel ] R.V. the Lord the God of Israel.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

These were the orderings … – i. e., this was the numerical order fixed for their ministerial attendance in the house of the Lord – an attendance which was after the manner determined for them by their forefather Aaron, according to instructions which he received from God.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Verse 19. Under Aaron their father] That is, they followed the order and plans laid down by Aaron during his lifetime.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

These were the orderings of them in their service; in this order and method they were to come to perform the offices of the temple. To come into the house of the Lord, according to their manner, i.e. to come into the temple every sabbath day, and to continue there all the week long until the next sabbath, when they were relieved by others, as the manner was: see 2Ki 11:5; 1Ch 9:25.

Under Aaron their father, i.e. under the inspection and direction of the high priest, whom he calls Aaron, because he represented his person, and executed his office, and also came out of his loins, and

their father, because of the authority which by Gods appointment he had over them, and that love, reverence, and obedience which they owed to him.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

These were the orderings of them,…. Their classes or courses into which they were divided:

in their service to come into the house of the Lord; to perform their service in the temple, according to their turns, and in course as fixed by lot; one class or course served one week, and then went out, and another came in, each consisting of 1000 men, see 1Ch 23:4

according to their manner; law, right, custom, here prescribed for them: under Aaron their father; that is, him who was high priest for the time being; who bore this name because his successor and representative, under whose inspection, direction, and authority, all the rest of the priests were, and whom they were to obey in all things:

as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him; to take care they should be done.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

These are their official classes for their service (cf. 1Ch 24:3), , so that they came (according to the arrangement thus determined) into the house of Jahve, according to their law, through Aaron their father (ancestor), i.e., according to the lawful arrangement which was made by Aaron for their official service, as Jahve the God of Israel had commanded. This last clause refers to the fact that the priestly service in all its parts was prescribed by Jahve in the law.

(Note: Of these twenty-four classes, each one had to perform the service during a week in order, and, as may be gathered with certainty from 2Ki 11:9 and 2Ch 23:9, from Sabbath to Sabbath. Josephus bears witness to this division in Antt. vii. 14. 7: . Herzfeld, on the contrary ( Geschichte des Volks Israel von der Zerstrung des ersten Tempels, Bd. i. S. 381ff.), following de Wette and Bramb., has declared the reference of this organization of the priests to David to be an invention of the chronicler, and maintains that the twenty-four classes of priests were formed only after the exile, from the twenty-two families of priests who returned out of exile with Zerubbabel. But this baseless hypothesis is sufficiently refuted by the evidence adduced by Movers, die bibl. Chron. S. 279ff., for the historical character of the arrangements attributed to David, and described in our chapters; but the remarks of Oehler in Herzog ‘ s Realenc. xii. S. 185f. may also be compared. An unimpeachable witness for the prae-exilic origin of the division of the priests into twenty-four orders is the vision of Ezekiel (Eze 8:16-18), where the twenty-five men who worship the sun in the priests ‘ court represent the twenty-four classes of priests, with the high priest at their head. In Neh 12:1-7 and Neh 12:12-21 also unimpeachable evidence for the Davidic origin of the division of the priests into twenty-four classes is to be found, as we shall show in treating of these passages.)

Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament