SEV Biblia, Chapter 24:2
Mas Nadab, y Abiú murieron antes que su padre, y no tuvieron hijos; Eleazar e Itamar tuvieron el sacerdocio.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 24:3
Verse 3. And Ahimelech] Ahimelech is put here for Abiathar, who was high priest in the days of David. Abiathar had also the name of Ahimelech, as well as his father. See Calmet.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. And David distributed them , etc.] The posterities of Eleazar and Ithamar into certain classes or courses: both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar ; these were the two principal men of the respective families, the one was high priest, and the other “sagan” or deputy; or they both officiated as high priests alternately, until the one was removed in Solomon’s time, and the other established alone. And now their brethren the priests, who were under each of these, are the persons David divided into classes: according to their offices in their service : to perform their office as priests in the service of the temple in their turns.
Ver. 4 . And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar , etc.] Or heads of men, heads of their fathers’ houses and families: and thus were they divided; among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar, according to the house of their fathers ; in all twenty four, and into so many classes or courses did David divide them; Jarchi says at first when the tabernacle was at Shiloh, there were but sixteen courses, eight from Eleazar, and eight from Ithamar, as is explained in the treatise of fasting f104 ; but when David saw that there were more heads of men, or chief men of Eleazar’s, he divided the courses of Eleazar into two parts, and fixed sixteen courses; and the courses of Ithamar he established as at first, eight courses; left them as they were, which he thinks appears from ( 1 Chronicles 24:6) but of the former number of courses, and when and by whom fixed, the Jews are divided f105 ; ((see Gill on “ Luke 1:5”)). Perhaps there were none before David’s time.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The divisions of the priests and Levites.
--When every one has, knows, and keeps his place and work, the mor there are the better. In the mystical body of Christ, every member ha its use, for the good of the whole. Christ is High Priest over the house of God, to whom all believers, being made priests, are to be in subjection. In Christ, no difference is made between bond and free elder and younger. The younger brethren, if faithful and sincere, shal be no less acceptable to Christ than the fathers. May we all be children of the Lord, fitted to sing his praises for ever in his templ above __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וימת 4191 נדב 5070 ואביהוא 30 לפני 6440 אביהם 1 ובנים 1121 לא 3808 היו 1961 להם 1992 ויכהנו 3547 אלעזר 499 ואיתמר׃ 385
