The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Chronicles — Section 95

instoncea by the name of the ancestor at e. section wo mny notice. if not the first certain point. beginning, yet sow" of the earliest crystn:- Vere. 22-28.-(B) These verses give lization of the forms of reli";ous senic~.s. descendants, probably twenty-one in num- It was given to David to settk the ark after ber, from Levi, through his second son, its travels through the wilderness, its Kohu.th, to Joel, eldest son of Su.mnel u.nd sojourn in vu.rious places since then, doubt- (ver. 33) fu.ther of Hemu.n. The descend- less always within the care of some Levitical u.nts of Kobath through his eldest son, family (except when taken by onemies, Amram, hu.ve been given from vers. 3-15. 1 Sam. iv.11; v., vi.), u.ncl in especial its pro- But the descendu.nts now to be spoken of longed twenty years' sojourn at Kirj<1th- u.re through e.nother son, here callecl Am- jeu.rim (1 Sam. vii. 1, 2; 2 Sam. vi. 1-10; miaadab, u. nu.me not u.ppeu.ring u.mong the eh. xiii. 3-14; xv. 1-3; xvii. 5). It now four of ver. 2, but u.ppu.rently standing for had rest, though ils place of rest was only the lzhar of tilu.t verse. For he is said to within "curtains" (2 Sam. vii. 2; eh. xvi i. ilave u. son Korab, by whom, indeed, the 1), i.e. in a special separate tent prepared genealogy moves on, while in vers. 37, 38, for it by David, which tent was probably and Numb. xvi. 1, Korab is said to be the the suggestion, and as it were the nucleus, or son of Izhar. Without the occurrence of the coming grand temple itself-the house this clue, we should have been at a Joss to of God. 'fhe event was naturally one of tell who Amminadab was, as we are now at great joy and thanksgiving, of which David o Joss to explain the unexplained substi- himself was the chief lee.tier (2 Sam. vi. tution of this new name. The Vatico.n 17-21; eh. xvi. 1-3); but it appee.rs also Septuagint has Amminadob, while the that it furnished the occasion of appointing Alexandrine has altered to Izhar, probably fixed choir conductors, leaders of the service deeming the other name a mere error. of song" (oh. xvi. ¼--7, 37, 41, 42; xxv. 1-7). Vere. 22, 23.-Xore.h (comp. Numb. xvi. Ver. 32.-Instances full of illustration 27, 32, 33, with x.xvi. 9-11). From Exod. of this ministering . . . with singing ancl vi. 24 we u.lso leu.rn that the three next waiting on their office o.re found in 2 Uhron. in linee.l succession to Korab, were Assir, v. 12; xxix. 26-31 ; XXXV. 15, lG. Elkana.h, and Ebie.saph, or Abiasaph; though Ver. 33.-We ho.ve now the name ancl Elko.nab and Assir u.re omitted from ver. 37, pedigree of au.eh of the three chief singers in the ascending line. or musicians (their duty was botl1 voco.l ,rnd Vere. 2¼--28.-Tahath. From this name insti·umento.l) of David's o.ppoiutment, be- onwards to the end of ver. 28 we must ho.ve ginning, according to the analogy of var. 2, recourse to the reversed list of vers. 33-37, supra, with Hemo.n, the desccncl11nt of in order to mo.ke out our wo.y. Even then Koho.th, insteo.d of Asaph from Gershom. we sho.11 scarcely have e. cha.in of o.11 the So the plo.ce of Heman w11s still tbo place Jiuks; e.g. there is no evidence here (o.s of honour, in the oentre, with Aso.ph on tho there is in the co.se of Ammino.dab above) right and Ethan on the left (vers. 30, 4-l). that Oriel o.nd Zepho.niah designate the same Heman is the twenty-first according to this person. The lists mo.y be brought, how- list (vers. 33-38) o.fter Levi, but the genco.- ever, into pretty close ilarmony without any logy is indistinct (see o.bove, vers. 22-28) violent suppositions or substitutions, thus: between Shemuel o.nd Assir, and according Ta.bath, Uriel, Zepho.niah, Uzziah (i.q. Aza- to Hervey(' Geneo.logies ofour Lord,' p. 2!4), rio.h), Shaul (i.q. Joel), Elkanah, Amaso.i, Heruo.n comes fourteenth after Levi. This Ahimoth (i.q. Mailath), Elke.nab Zophai (i.q. Heman is to be distinguished from Hemo.n Zupil), Naho.th (i.q. Toah, 'fohu, 1 Sam. i. 1), the" son of Zerah" (eh. ii. G), o.nd with but Eliab (i.q. Elio!, Elihu, 1 Sam. i. 1), J'ero- little doubt, therefore, from Hem,m tlw ham, Elke.nab, Samuel (i.q. Shemuel), Joel Ezra.bite (Zerahito) of Ps. lnxviii. On (1 So.m. viii. 2, which distinctly gives Joel tlie other hond, o. theory ho.s been suggesto,l us firstborn son, o.nd supplies tile expluno.• by Lord Arthur C. Hervey which might tion of the Vashni here by expressly men- reconcile tho two. Ho supposes th,1t if tioning Abiah o.s "his second" son). Heman the Kohathite (or his father) hall Vars. 29, 30.-(C) In ver. 19 the two sons mo.rried o.n heiress of the house of Zero.h, of Meruri, viz. l\fohli o.ncl Mushi, o.re given. he migilt ho.ve become reckoned in the lino Here one of them, Mahli, is repeated, with of Zernh 118 well o.s in that of Koho.th. six deeoendo.nts, of no one of whom ho.ve Ver. 30.-Aeaph is called brother of we any other informo.tion. From compo.ri- Heman, either u.e brother in office or gene- son of Numb. iii. 20 o.nd xxvi. 58 there can rally o.s relo.live iu the degree of cousin by be no doubt that Mahli and Mushi were many removes. He st11nds fourtecuth in liuu brothers, each of whom founded a family. of descent after Levi, whilo Ethun (ver. 4-1) 'file descending line of Mushi, uno.lludccl to stuncls tliirteonth. If tho line of Hornu,. here, comes to the surfo.oe in vers. 44-47. (as given in vers. 33-38) wero correct, it Vers. Sl-48.-In the eo.rly verses of this woulcl force on us the conviction that thei-11 8G THE FIRST BOOK OF 'l'HE CHTIONIULES. [en. vr. 1-81.