1 Chronicles 15 in Hebrew & English

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Tenakh Study · 1 Chronicles 15:1–29

1 Chronicles, Chapter 15

דברי הימים א טו

David prepares a tent for the Ark and gathers the priests and the Levi’im, who sanctify themselves and carry it on their shoulders as Moshe commanded. Heman, Asaf and Etan and their brethren are appointed singers and musicians, the Ark is brought up to the city of David with joy, and Michal looks on.

15:1And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

אוַיַּֽעַשׂ־ל֥וֹ בָתִּ֖ים בְּעִ֣יר דָּוִ֑יד וַיָּ֤כֶן מָקוֹם֙ לַֽאֲר֣וֹן הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים וַיֶּט־ל֖וֹ אֹֽהֶל׃

15:2Then David said, “None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levi’im (Levites): for them has Hashem chosen to carry the ark of Hashem, and to minister unto Him for ever.”

באָ֚ז אָמַ֣ר דָּוִ֔יד לֹ֤א לָשֵׂאת֙ אֶת־אֲר֣וֹן הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים כִּ֖י אִם־הַלְוִיִּ֑ם כִּי־בָ֣ם ׀ בָּחַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה לָשֵׂ֞את אֶת־אֲר֧וֹן יְהוָ֛ה וּֽלְשָׁרְת֖וֹ עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃

15:3And David gathered all Israel together to Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), to bring up the ark of Hashem unto his place, which he had prepared for it.

גוַיַּקְהֵ֥ל דָּוִ֛יד אֶת־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶל־יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם לְהַעֲלוֹת֙ אֶת־אֲר֣וֹן יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־מְקוֹמ֖וֹ אֲשֶׁר־הֵכִ֥ין לֽוֹ׃

Commentary · 15:1–3

A place prepared

Hebrew lesson: הֵכִין מָקוֹם (hechin makom), “he prepared a place.” The verb kun came in 14:2, where Hashem “confirmed” (hechino) David as king. Now David prepares. The same verb carries the rest of the book: Hashem will “establish” the throne of David’s son (17:11–12); David will say, “I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God” (29:2); and the Temple will rise “in the place that David had prepared” (2 Chronicles 3:1). Hashem establishes the king; the king prepares the place.

“Then David said.” The lesson is learned. David quotes the Torah: “At that time Hashem separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Hashem” (Deuteronomy 10:8), and the sons of Kehat received no wagons, “that they should bear upon their shoulders” (Numbers 7:9). None of this was hidden; the Sages say it was a verse schoolchildren read (Sotah 35a). David’s sin was zeal that moved before it read. Hashem chose the Levi’im “for ever,” and the prophets hold to that: “neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me” (Jeremiah 33:18). Our Statement of Faith confesses that the Torah is not replaced and the Messianic age restores the Temple and its service.

Messianic reading. “I go to prepare a place for you,” Yeshua told his disciples (John 14:2). David prepared a place for the Presence; the Son of David prepares a place for the people in the Father’s house.

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The priests and the Levi’im

15:4And David assembled the children of Aharon (Aaron), and the Levi’im:

דוַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף דָּוִ֛יד אֶת־בְּנֵ֥י אַֽהֲרֹ֖ן וְאֶת־הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

15:5Of the sons of Kehat (Kohath); Uri’el (Uriel) the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty:

הלִבְנֵ֖י קְהָ֑ת אוּרִיאֵ֣ל הַשָּׂ֔ר וְאֶחָ֖יו מֵאָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃

15:6Of the sons of Merari; Asayah (Asaiah) the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:

ולִבְנֵ֖י מְרָרִ֑י עֲשָׂיָ֣ה הַשָּׂ֔ר וְאֶחָ֖יו מָאתַ֥יִם וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃

15:7Of the sons of Gershom; Yo’el (Joel) the chief, and his brethren a hundred and thirty:

זלִבְנֵ֖י גֵּרְשׁ֑וֹם יוֹאֵ֣ל הַשָּׂ֔ר וְאֶחָ֖יו מֵאָ֥ה וּשְׁלֹשִֽׁים׃

15:8Of the sons of Elitzafan (Elizaphan); Shema’yah (Shemaiah) the chief, and his brethren two hundred:

חלִבְנֵ֖י אֱלִֽיצָפָ֑ן שְׁמַֽעְיָ֥ה הַשָּׂ֖ר וְאֶחָ֥יו מָאתָֽיִם׃

15:9Of the sons of Chevron (Hebron); Eli’el (Eliel) the chief, and his brethren eighty:

טלִבְנֵ֖י חֶבְר֑וֹן אֱלִיאֵ֥ל הַשָּׂ֖ר וְאֶחָ֥יו שְׁמוֹנִֽים׃

15:10Of the sons of Uzzi’el (Uzziel); Amminadav (Amminadab) the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twelve.

ילִבְנֵ֖י עֻזִּיאֵ֑ל עַמִּינָדָ֣ב הַשָּׂ֔ר וְאֶחָ֕יו מֵאָ֖ה וּשְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָֽׂר׃

15:11And David called for Tzadok (Zadok) and Evyatar (Abiathar) the priests, and for the Levi’im, for Uri’el, Asayah, and Yo’el, Shema’yah, and Eli’el, and Amminadav,

יאוַיִּקְרָ֣א דָוִ֔יד לְצָד֥וֹק וּלְאֶבְיָתָ֖ר הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֑ים וְלַלְוִיִּ֗ם לְאֽוּרִיאֵ֤ל עֲשָׂיָה֙ וְיוֹאֵ֣ל שְׁמַֽעְיָ֔ה וֶאֱלִיאֵ֖ל וְעַמִּינָדָֽב׃

15:12And said unto them, “You are the chief of the fathers of the Levi’im: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of Hashem God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.

יבוַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֔ם אַתֶּ֛ם רָאשֵׁ֥י הָאָב֖וֹת לַלְוִיִּ֑ם הִֽתְקַדְּשׁוּ֙ אַתֶּ֣ם וַאֲחֵיכֶ֔ם וְהַֽעֲלִיתֶ֗ם אֵ֣ת אֲר֤וֹן יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶל־הֲכִינ֖וֹתִי לֽוֹ׃

15:13For because you did it not at the first, Hashem our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought Him not after the due order.”

יגכִּ֛י לְמַ בָּרִ֥אשׁוֹנָ֖ה לֹ֣א אַתֶּ֑ם פָּרַ֨ץ יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֵ֨ינוּ֙ בָּ֔נוּ כִּי־לֹ֥א דְרַשְׁנֻ֖הוּ כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃

15:14So the priests and the Levi’im sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Hashem God of Israel.

ידוַיִּֽתְקַדְּשׁ֔וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים וְהַלְוִיִּ֑ם לְהַעֲל֕וֹת אֶת־אֲר֥וֹן יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

15:15And the children of the Levi’im bore the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moshe (Moses) commanded according to the word of Hashem.

טווַיִּשְׂא֣וּ בְנֵֽי־הַלְוִיִּ֗ם אֵ֚ת אֲר֣וֹן הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה מֹשֶׁ֖ה כִּדְבַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה בִּכְתֵפָ֥ם בַּמֹּט֖וֹת עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

Commentary · 15:4–15

“Sanctify yourselves”: the Levi’im take up the Ark

David assembles six chiefs with 862 of their brethren, from Kehat, Merari, Gershom and the Kehati houses of Elitzafan, Chevron and Uzzi’el. Kehat leads because Kehat carries the Ark. For the returned community, Levite lineage was no formality: at the river Ahava, Ezra “found there none of the sons of Levi” (Ezra 8:15) and had to send for them. A chapter that names the chiefs with their numbers told those readers that the Levi’im are not optional.

“We sought Him not after the due order.” Here paratz comes for the last time and darash for the second: paratz Hashem Eloheinu banu, ki lo derashnuhu kamishpat. In 13:3 the object of “we sought not” was the Ark; here it is Hashem Himself. The Ark has a mishpat, an ordinance, and seeking Hashem without His ordinance is not seeking Him. Hitkadshu, “sanctify yourselves,” echoes the command of Sinai (Exodus 19:22), and what Ezra told the priests who carried the Temple vessels home from Babylon: “Ye are holy unto Hashem; the vessels are holy also” (Ezra 8:28).

On their shoulders. The staves were never to leave the rings (Exodus 25:15). The Sages say the Ark carried those who carried it (Sotah 35a), and the Chronicler says, “God helped the Levi’im that bore the ark” (15:26). Messianic reading: “Take my yoke upon you… my burden is light” (Matthew 11:29–30). Good intentions put the Ark on a cart. Holiness puts it on the shoulder.

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The singers and musicians

15:16And David spoke to the chief of the Levi’im to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

טזוַיֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִיד֮ לְשָׂרֵ֣י הַלְוִיִּם֒ לְהַֽעֲמִ֗יד אֶת־אֲחֵיהֶם֙ הַמְשֹׁ֣רְרִ֔ים בִּכְלֵי־שִׁ֛יר נְבָלִ֥ים וְכִנֹּר֖וֹת וּמְצִלְתָּ֑יִם מַשְׁמִיעִ֥ים לְהָרִֽים־בְּק֖וֹל לְשִׂמְחָֽה׃

15:17So the Levi’im appointed Heman the son of Yo’el; and of his brethren, Asaf (Asaph) the son of Berechyahu (Berechiah); and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Etan (Ethan) the son of Kushayahu (Kushaiah);

יזוַיַּעֲמִ֣ידוּ הַלְוִיִּ֗ם אֵ֚ת הֵימָ֣ן בֶּן־יוֹאֵ֔ל וּמִ֨ן־אֶחָ֔יו אָסָ֖ף בֶּן־בֶּֽרֶכְיָ֑הוּ ס וּמִן־בְּנֵ֤י מְרָרִי֙ אֲחֵיהֶ֔ם אֵיתָ֖ן בֶּן־קֽוּשָׁיָֽהוּ׃

15:18And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zecharyahu (Zechariah), Ben, and Ya’azi’el (Jaaziel), and Shemiramot (Shemiramoth), and Yechi’el (Jehiel), and Uni (Unni), Eli’av (Eliab), and Benayahu (Benaiah), and Ma’aseyahu (Maaseiah), and Matityahu (Mattithiah), and Elifelehu (Elipheleh), and Mikneyahu (Mikneiah), and Oved-Edom (Obed-edom), and Ye’i’el (Jeiel), the porters.

יחוְעִמָּהֶ֖ם אֲחֵיהֶ֣ם הַמִּשְׁנִ֑ים זְכַרְיָ֡הוּ בֵּ֡ן וְיַֽעֲזִיאֵ֡ל וּשְׁמִֽירָמ֡וֹת וִיחִיאֵ֣ל ׀ וְעֻנִּ֡י אֱלִיאָ֡ב וּבְנָיָ֡הוּ וּמַֽעֲשֵׂיָ֡הוּ וּמַתִּתְיָהוּ֩ וֶאֱלִ֨יפְלֵ֜הוּ וּמִקְנֵיָ֨הוּ וְעֹבֵ֥ד אֱדֹ֛ם וִֽיעִיאֵ֖ל הַשֹּׁעֲרִֽים׃

15:19So the singers, Heman, Asaf, and Etan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of bronze;

יטוְהַמְשֹׁ֣רְרִ֔ים הֵימָ֥ן אָסָ֖ף וְאֵיתָ֑ן בִּמְצִלְתַּ֥יִם נְחֹ֖שֶׁת לְהַשְׁמִֽיעַ׃

15:20And Zecharyah, and Azi’el (Aziel), and Shemiramot, and Yechi’el, and Uni, and Eli’av, and Ma’aseyahu, and Benayahu, with psalteries on Alamoth;

כוּזְכַרְיָ֨ה וַעֲזִיאֵ֜ל וּשְׁמִֽירָמ֤וֹת וִֽיחִיאֵל֙ וְעֻנִּ֣י וֶֽאֱלִיאָ֔ב וּמַעֲשֵׂיָ֖הוּ וּבְנָיָ֑הוּ בִּנְבָלִ֖ים עַל־עֲלָמֽוֹת׃

15:21And Matityahu, and Elifelehu, and Mikneyahu, and Oved-Edom, and Ye’i’el, and Azazyahu (Azaziah), with harps on the Sheminith to excel.

כאוּמַתִּתְיָ֣הוּ וֶאֱלִֽיפְלֵ֗הוּ וּמִקְנֵיָ֨הוּ֙ וְעֹבֵ֣ד אֱדֹ֔ם וִֽיעִיאֵ֖ל וַעֲזַזְיָ֑הוּ בְּכִנֹּר֥וֹת עַל־הַשְּׁמִינִ֖ית לְנַצֵּֽחַ׃

15:22And Kenanyahu (Chenaniah), chief of the Levi’im, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.

כבוּכְנַנְיָ֥הוּ שַֽׂר־הַלְוִיִּ֖ם בְּמַשָּׂ֑א יָסֹר֙ בַּמַּשָּׂ֔א כִּ֥י מֵבִ֖ין הֽוּא׃

15:23And Berechyah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

כגוּבֶֽרֶכְיָה֙ וְאֶלְקָנָ֔ה שֹׁעֲרִ֖ים לָאָרֽוֹן׃

15:24And Shevanyahu (Shebaniah), and Yoshafat (Jehoshaphat), and Netan’el (Nethaneel), and Amasai, and Zecharyahu, and Benayahu, and Eli’ezer (Eliezer), the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Oved-Edom and Yechiyah (Jehiah) were doorkeepers for the ark.

כדוּשְׁבַנְיָ֡הוּ וְיֽוֹשָׁפָ֡ט וּנְתַנְאֵ֡ל וַעֲמָשַׂ֡י וּ֠זְכַרְיָהוּ וּבְנָיָ֤הוּ וֶֽאֱלִיעֶ֨זֶר֙ הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים מַחְצְרִים֙ (כתיב מחצצרים) בַּחֲצֹ֣צְר֔וֹת לִפְנֵ֖י אֲר֣וֹן הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְעֹבֵ֤ד אֱדֹם֙ וִֽיחִיָּ֔ה שֹׁעֲרִ֖ים לָאָרֽוֹן׃

Commentary · 15:16–24

The singers, the instruments and Kenanyahu

This is the birth of the Temple music. When the foundation of the Second Temple was laid, the Levi’im the sons of Asaf praised Hashem “after the ordinance of David king of Israel” (Ezra 3:10). Heman, Asaf and Etan stand for the three Levite houses, and Heman is the grandson of Shmuel, the prophet who anointed David. Etan’s Psalm 89 is the psalm of the house of David, “Thy seed will I establish for ever” (89:4); FFOZ notes that the Sages’ phrase “the footsteps of the Messiah” comes from its last lines (89:51; End of Days, Lesson 13, “The Name of the Beast”). Heman’s Psalm 88 is darker: “thou hast laid me in the lowest pit.” David’s singers sang both the covenant and the pit. Mashiach ben David and Mashiach ben Yosef were already in the choir.

Hebrew lesson: שְׁמִינִית (Sheminith), “the eighth.” Rashi on Psalm 6:1 explains it as a harp of eight strings. The Talmud teaches that the harp of the Temple had seven strings, the harp of the days of Mashiach will have eight, and the harp of the World to Come ten (Arakhin 13b). David’s harpists on the Sheminith were tuned one string past this world.

Kenanyahu was over the massa, a burden lifted and a voice lifted, “because he was skilful” (ki mevin hu, “because he understood”). The priests blow the trumpets (Numbers 10:8), and among the doorkeepers is Oved-Edom again.

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The Ark comes up with joy

15:25So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Hashem out of the house of Oved-Edom with joy.

כהוַיְהִ֥י דָוִ֛יד וְזִקְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וְשָׂרֵ֣י הָאֲלָפִ֑ים הַהֹֽלְכִ֗ים לְֽהַעֲל֞וֹת אֶת־אֲר֧וֹן בְּרִית־יְהוָ֛ה מִן־בֵּ֥ית עֹבֵֽד־אֱדֹ֖ם בְּשִׂמְחָֽה׃

15:26And it came to pass, when God helped the Levi’im that bore the ark of the covenant of Hashem, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.

כווַֽיְהִי֙ בֶּעְזֹ֣ר הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶ֨ת־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם נֹשְׂאֵ֖י אֲר֣וֹן בְּרִית־יְהוָ֑ה וַיִּזְבְּח֥וּ שִׁבְעָֽה־פָרִ֖ים וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה אֵילִֽים׃

15:27And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levi’im that bore the ark, and the singers, and Kenanyah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.

כזוְדָוִ֞יד מְכֻרְבָּ֣ל ׀ בִּמְעִ֣יל בּ֗וּץ וְכָל־הַלְוִיִּם֙ הַנֹּשְׂאִ֣ים אֶת־הָאָר֔וֹן וְהַמְשֹׁ֣רְרִ֔ים וּכְנַנְיָ֛ה הַשַּׂ֥ר הַמַּשָּׂ֖א הַמְשֹֽׁרְרִ֑ים וְעַל־דָּוִ֖יד אֵפ֥וֹד בָּֽד׃

15:28Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Hashem with shouting, and with sound of the shofar (cornet), and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

כחוְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל מַעֲלִים֙ אֶת־אֲר֣וֹן בְּרִית־יְהוָ֔ה בִּתְרוּעָה֙ וּבְק֣וֹל שׁוֹפָ֔ר וּבַחֲצֹצְר֖וֹת וּבִמְצִלְתָּ֑יִם מַשְׁמִעִ֕ים בִּנְבָלִ֖ים וְכִנֹּרֽוֹת׃

Commentary · 15:25–28

Up to the city of David with joy

For the Sages on the six paces and the offerings, see our 2 Samuel commentary. The king in linen. Samuel mentions only the ephod. Chronicles adds the me’il butz, the robe of fine linen, and dresses the king exactly like the Levi’im carrying the Ark and the singers. Rambam ruled from this scene that whoever lowers himself in joy before Hashem is “the great one, the honored one, who serves out of love” (Hilchot Shofar, Sukkah ve-Lulav 8:15). The Chronicler shows the lowering in cloth: no purple, no crown, the same white as the Levi’im.

“With shouting, and with sound of the shofar.” The Hebrew is biteruah uvekol shofar, word for word the line of Psalm 47: “God is gone up with a shout, Hashem with the sound of a trumpet” (Psalm 47:5). That is the psalm we say before the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, and many read it as the song of this procession: Hashem “goes up” to Tziyon as His Ark goes up.

Messianic reading. Paul described the return of the Son of David in the words of this procession: “with a shout… and with the trump of God” (1 Thessalonians 4:16). The Talmud puts Psalm 24, “and the King of glory shall come in,” in Shlomo’s mouth when he brought this same Ark into the Holy of Holies (Shabbat 30a). The Ark went up to Tziyon in David’s day and in Shlomo’s, and the gates opened for David’s sake. When the Son of David returns, Tziyon will lift up its gates again, and the glory will be Hashem’s.

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15:29And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of Hashem came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Shaul (Saul) looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

כטוַיְהִ֗י אֲרוֹן֙ בְּרִ֣ית יְהוָ֔ה בָּ֖א עַד־עִ֣יר דָּוִ֑יד וּמִיכַ֨ל בַּת־שָׁא֜וּל נִשְׁקְפָ֣ה ׀ בְּעַ֣ד הַחַלּ֗וֹן וַתֵּ֨רֶא אֶת־הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ דָּוִיד֙ מְרַקֵּ֣ד וּמְשַׂחֵ֔ק וַתִּ֥בֶז ל֖וֹ בְּלִבָּֽהּ׃

Commentary · 15:29

Michal at the window

Samuel goes on to the quarrel at the palace door and ends with Michal childless (2 Samuel 6:20–23; see our 2 Samuel commentary). Chronicles keeps one verse and stops. Why keep it at all? Because Michal here is not David’s wife. She is “the daughter of Shaul,” and this is the last time a child of Shaul appears in the book. Shaul “inquired not of Hashem” (10:14); under Shaul, “we inquired not at” the Ark (13:3); and now Shaul’s daughter watches the Ark come home and despises the man who sought it. She is at a window, apart from all Israel. The verb for David’s “playing,” mesachek, is the verb used of the whole people in 13:8: the king is doing what all Israel is doing. Michal thinks a king should be above the people. David thinks a king belongs among them before Hashem.

Messianic reading. When the Son of David came down the Mount of Olives and the disciples rejoiced with a loud voice, some Pharisees said, “Master, rebuke thy disciples,” and he answered, “if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out” (Luke 19:39–40). There is always a window, and always someone at it. Joy before Hashem is not undignified. Standing apart from it is.

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Hebrew text: The Masoretic text with vowels (nikkud) and cantillation marks (ta’amim), from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain) as published by the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (CC BY 4.0). Where the written text (ketiv) differs from the reading (qere), the reading is shown and the written form follows in small type. A paragraph mark (ס or פ) inside a verse is shown in small type.
English translation: The King James Version (public domain), lightly modernized by Benei Avraham: “thee/thou/ye” become “you,” older verb forms are updated (“hath” to “has”), and archaic words are replaced only where the meaning would otherwise be unclear. People and places carry their Hebrew names, with the King James spelling in parentheses the first time on each page (e.g., Yehudah (Judah)). The Divine Name (יהוה, “the LORD” in the KJV) is written “Hashem”; “God” (Elohim) is unchanged, and “law” is “Torah” where the Hebrew is תּוֹרָה.
Verse numbers: Verse numbers follow the Hebrew Bible. In 1 Chronicles they differ from most English Bibles in chapters 5, 6 and 12; a note under the summary on those pages explains how.
Commentary: Written for our Wednesday Tenakh study from a Messianic Jewish perspective, in line with the Benei Avraham Statement of Faith. It reads the passage first in its Torah setting, then with the Sages, and then with the witness of the Brit Hadashah. Its sources include the Talmud and Midrash, Rashi, Radak, Rambam, the First Fruits of Zion End of Days lessons, and teachings of Rabbi Efraim Palvanov and Ariel Cohen Alloro. Numerical readings (gematria) are offered as hints, not proofs. The notes here are short versions of our full 1 Chronicles commentary, which is a draft for our teachers to review. They are shown by default; tap Commentary to hide them.
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