June 27, 2010

• 2 Chronicles 34 Part 6

  2Ki 22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:

  Hilkiah = “my portion is Jehovah”

  2Ki 22:5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which [is] in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
  2Ki 22:6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
   
  2Ch 34:9  And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
  2Ch 34:10 And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:
  2Ch 34:11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it], to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
  2Ch 34:12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them [were] Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set [it] forward; and [other of] the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.

  Jahath = “He will snatch up”
  1) a Merarite Levite in the reign of Josiah

  Obadiah = “servant of Jehovah”
  1) a Merarite Levite overseer of the work of restoring the temple in the time of king Josiah of Judah

  Levite = see Levi “joined to”
  1) the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah
  a) the tribe descended from Levi specially set aside by God for His service

  Merari = “bitter”
  1) the 3rd son of Levi and head of a Levitical family

  Zechariah = “Jehovah remembers”
  1) a Kohathite Levite in the reign of Josiah

  Meshullam = “friend”
  1) a Kohathite or family of Kohathite Levites in the reign of Josiah

  Kohath = “assembly”
  1) the 2nd of the 3 sons of Levi and progenitor of a family in the tribe of Levi

  Kohath; Kohathites:
  ko’-hath, ko’-hath-its (qehath, qohathi; Kaath): Second son of Levi, and ancestor of Moses and Aaron (Ge 46:11; Ex 6:16-20; Nu 3:17; 1Ch 6:1, etc.). The Kohathites formed one of the three divisions of the tribe of Levi; the other two being the Gershonites and the Merarites (Nu 3:17 ). The Kohathites consisted of four families, the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites (Nu 3:19,27, etc.). Their place in the wilderness was on the southern side of the tabernacle (Nu 3:29), and their number is given (from a month old) as 8,600 (Nu 3:28). Their special charge was “the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the screen, and all the service thereof” (Nu 3:31; compare Nu 7:9). After the conquest 23 cities were assigned them by lot (Jos 21:4,5 ). In David’s time and after, Heman, a Kohathite, and his family had a prominent place in the service of the music of the sanctuary (1Ch 6:33 ff; 16:41 ff; 25:1 ); David likewise divided the Levites into courses (the Kohathites, 1Ch 23:12-20; 24:20-25). We read of the Kohathites in the reign of Jehoshaphat at Engedi (2Ch 20:19), and in connection with the cleansing of the temple under Hezekiah (2Ch 29:12,14).
  Written by James Orr

  Samuel was of this division.

  2Ch 34:12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them [were] “He will snatch up” a “servant of Jehovah”, “joined to”, the sons of “bitter[ness]“; and “Jehovah remembers” [a] “friend”, of the sons of the “assembly”, to set [it] forward; and [other of] the “joined to”, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
  
  2Ch 34:13 Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and [were] overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites [there were] scribes, and officers, and porters.
  
  2Ki 22:7  Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

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