{"id":10808,"date":"2022-09-24T03:44:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-155\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T03:44:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:44:16","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-155\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 15:5"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty: <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 5<\/strong>. <em> the sons of Kohath: Uriel<\/em> ] Kohath had four sons (<span class='bible'>Exo 6:18<\/span> = <span class='bible'>1Ch 6:18<\/span>) Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Here the descendants of Amram (exclusive of the priests, the Aaronites) represented by Uriel head the list (<span class='bible'>1Ch 15:5<\/span>), and the descendants of Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel appear in <span class='bible'>1Ch 15:8-10<\/span> respectively. <em> Elizaphan<\/em> (<span class='bible'>1Ch 15:8<\/span>), either stands for the <em> Izhar<\/em> of <span class='bible'>Exo 6:18<\/span>, or is the name of some prominent descendant of Izhar after whom the whole family was named. As regards number the Kohathites were 512 against 350 of the sons of Merari and the sons of Gershom combined. In <span class='bible'>1Ch 6:60-63<\/span> (45 48 Heb. division) 23 cities are reckoned to Kohath against 25 to Merari and Gershom combined. The Kohathites formed the largest and most important of the three divisions of the Levites.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>The sons of Kohath &#8211; <\/B>The order of the sons of Levi according to primogeniture is, Gershom, Kohath, Merari <span class='bible'>Gen 46:11<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Exo 6:16<\/span>. But the Kohathites, of whom came the priestly family of the Aaronites, had precedence in all respects. To them especially was committed the attendance upon the ark and the bearing of it. Of the six Levitical families mentioned <span class='bible'>1Ch 15:5-10<\/span> one only was descended from Gershom, one from Merari, and four (Uriel, Elizaphan, Hebron, and Uzziel) from Kohath.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>Of the sons of Kohath, <\/B>to wit, of Amram or Izhar, Kohaths sons, <span class='bible'>Num 3:27<\/span>. Otherwise Elizaphan, <span class='bible'>1Ch 15:8<\/span>, and Hebron, <span class='bible'>1Ch 15:9<\/span>, and Uzziel, <span class='bible'>1Ch 15:10<\/span>, were Kohaths children; of which see <span class='bible'>Exo 6:17<\/span>,<span class='bible'>18<\/span>,<span class='bible'>22<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span class='bible'>[See comments on 1Ch 15:4]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(5) <strong>Of the sons of Kohath.<\/strong>Kohath comes first, as the senior clan, to which the priestly house of Aaron itself belonged.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(5-7) <strong>Uriel<\/strong> (<em>El is light<\/em>)<em>,<\/em> <strong>Asaiah<\/strong> (<em>Iah made<\/em>)<em>,<\/em> <strong>Joel<\/strong> (<em>Iah is El<\/em>) occur as Levitical names in <span class='bible'>1Ch. 6:24<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Ch. 6:30<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Ch. 6:33<\/span>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>sons of Kohath. Of the six Ark-carriers, four were chosen from Kohath, one from Merari, and one from Gershom. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Uriel: 1Ch 6:22-24 <\/p>\n<p>brethren: or, kinsmen <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Num 3:19 &#8211; General 1Ch 15:11 &#8211; Uriel 2Ch 29:12 &#8211; Kohathites<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>1Ch 15:5. Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief  The sons of Kohath are mentioned Exo 6:17-18, and Uriel is not one of them: therefore he must have been his grandson, and a person so famous that his descendants are mentioned in the first place.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty: 5. the sons of Kohath: Uriel ] Kohath had four sons (Exo 6:18 = 1Ch 6:18) Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Here the descendants of Amram (exclusive of the priests, the Aaronites) represented by Uriel head the list (1Ch 15:5), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-155\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 15:5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}