These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. Sermons
I. THE WITNESS OF A SIGNIFICANT NAME. This was a singular recurrence to the ways of an older time, when children's names were given as embodying circumstances of birth, feelings of parents, etc., and when names were changed to express new relations of the life. In those earlier times names became elements of Divine revelations and agents of Divine witness and teaching. Ab-ra-ham taught men by his name, and so did Is-ra-el. Other instances of revival of this witness by names may be found in the prophetic names given by the later prophets to their children, such as Immanuel, Shear-jashub, and Maher-shalal-hash-baz. It is interesting to add that, among the glories of the future held out before the faithful, is this, "And I will give him a new name. So Jehozadak had his mission in his name. Down into captivity he went, but in all his intercourse with the humbled and captive people, he pleaded with his name, saying, Jehovah is righteous." And so we may learn that the least thing about us, a matter as seemingly unimportant as our name, may be taken up into God's service, and used by him. Therefore we "present our bodies" (our entire selves) "a living sacrifice." II. THE POSSIBLE CONTRAST BETWEEN A MAN'S NAME (OR THE PROMISE OF A MAN'S BIRTH) AND HIS CIRCUMSTANCES. It looked to be a most unlikely thing that a man whose very name declared that "Jehovah was righteous" would ever go into captivity, and be remarkable for a suffering and humiliated life. And yet this is the contrast often observed. It puzzled Asaph and the writer of Job and the writer of Ecclesiastes, in the olden time. It puzzles God's people still. Men born in sunshine spend lives in the ever-deepening shadows; and sufferers for life, lying in their sick-beds, are the noblest of all witnesses that "Jehovah is righteous." Illustrate by the exquisite reference in the life of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, to the beautiful witness for God made through long years by his invalid sister. Can there be Jehovah's righteousness seen even in the sufferings which come upon men as the natural fruitage of their own wrong-doings? for that is precisely the case with Israel crushed under the Babylonian tyranny. The presence of Jehozadak and Zedekiah among the captives declared that there can be. Look below the train of causes of which captivity seems the natural effect, and we may see God's purposes being accomplished, God's laws being vindicated, and God's Judgments being executed. Ever we may turn away from the mere course of history and details of events, and watch the "Judge of all the earth doing right." If, however, the suffering of the good troubles us, we may find rest in an appeal to the great case - our Lord suffered. He was not merely "smitten of God and afflicted." There was Divine righteousness in the affliction. He was man's Sin-bearer, and judged for others. Here is a firm foundation-truth, then, which no earthly appearances or strange human experiences can shake. Proclaim it once again, and proclaim it ever - "Jehovah is righteous." - R.T.
And they transgressed against the God of their fathers. I. If we turn to the Book of Kings we shall be surprised to find how the fatal sin of Israel was often of an intellectual kind, as distinguished from the baser iniquities which corrupt and overthrow the soul. There were three instances in which the intellectual sins of the people were conspicuous —1. In the worship of the holy places. 2. In adoration of the heavenly bodies. 3. In the practice of magic and divination.There we find nothing of adultery, drunkenness, theft, or licentiousness of any kind. There are sins and sins. One man is simply a sinner of the coarse type, a criminal seen and known of all men and cast out by society; another man sins intellectually — that is to say he mentally deposes God, and more or less secretly endeavours to live without Him, never breaking any of the great social commandments, and thereby forfeiting social confidence, yet all the while committing the sin against the Holy Ghost. In this way men write their own bibles, invent their own deities, banish from the mind all the old orthodoxies, and in hidden vanity walk after the council of their own hearts. (J. Parker, D. D.) People Aaron, Abdi, Abdon, Abiah, Abihu, Abijah, Abishua, Adaiah, Ahimaaz, Ahimoth, Ahitub, Alemeth, Amariah, Amasai, Amaziah, Amminadab, Amram, Amzi, Anathoth, Aner, Asaiah, Asaph, Asher, Assir, Azariah, Baaseiah, Bani, Benjamin, Berachiah, Berechiah, Bezer, Bukki, Caleb, Dan, David, Debir, Ebiasaph, Eleazar, Eliab, Eliel, Elkanah, Eshtemoa, Ethan, Ethni, Gad, Gershom, Gershomites, Gershon, Gibeon, Haggiah, Hashabiah, Heman, Hilkiah, Iddo, Israelites, Issachar, Ithamar, Izhar, Jahath, Jeaterai, Jehozadak, Jephunneh, Jeroham, Joah, Joel, Johanan, Kishi, Kohath, Kohathites, Korah, Levi, Levites, Libni, Mahath, Mahli, Malchiah, Malchijah, Malluch, Manasseh, Meraioth, Merari, Merarites, Michael, Miriam, Mushi, Nadab, Nahath, Naphtali, Nebuchadnezzar, Phinehas, Rehob, Reuben, Samuel, Saul, Seraiah, Shallum, Shamer, Shaul, Shemer, Shemuel, Shimea, Shimei, Simeon, Solomon, Tahath, Toah, Uriel, Uzza, Uzzah, Uzzi, Uzziah, Uzziel, Vashni, Zadok, Zebulun, Zephaniah, Zerah, Zerahiah, Zimmah, Zophai, ZuphPlaces Abdon, Aijalon, Alemeth, Anathoth, Anem, Aner, Ashan, Ashtaroth, Assyria, Bashan, Beth-horon, Beth-shemesh, Bezer, Bileam, Daberath, Debir, Eshtemoa, Galilee, Gath-rimmon, Geba, Gezer, Gibeon, Gilead, Golan, Hammon, Hebron, Heshbon, Hilen, Hukok, Jahzah, Jattir, Jazer, Jericho, Jerusalem, Jokmeam, Jordan River, Kedemoth, Kedesh, Kiriathaim, Libnah, Mahanaim, Mashal, Mephaath, Most Holy Place, Ramoth, Rehob, Shechem, TaborTopics Gershom, Gershon, Libni, Names, Shimei, Shim'e-i, SonsOutline 1. The sons of Levi.4. The line of Eleazar unto the captivity. 16. The families of Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 49. The office of Aaron, and his line unto Ahimaaz. 54. The cities of the priests and Levites. Dictionary of Bible Themes 1 Chronicles 6:3Library David's Choristers'They stood in their office, according to their order.'--1 CHRON. vi. 32 (R.V. margin). This brief note is buried in the catalogue of the singers appointed by David for 'the service of song in the house of the Lord.' The waves of their choral praise have long ages since ceased to eddy round the 'tabernacle of the tent of meeting,' and all that is left of their melodious companies is a dry list of names, in spite of which the dead owners of them are nameless. But the chronicler's description of them … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Nob. Bahurim. In Galilee at the Time of Our Lord Chronicles Links 1 Chronicles 6:17 NIV1 Chronicles 6:17 NLT 1 Chronicles 6:17 ESV 1 Chronicles 6:17 NASB 1 Chronicles 6:17 KJV 1 Chronicles 6:17 Bible Apps 1 Chronicles 6:17 Parallel 1 Chronicles 6:17 Biblia Paralela 1 Chronicles 6:17 Chinese Bible 1 Chronicles 6:17 French Bible 1 Chronicles 6:17 German Bible 1 Chronicles 6:17 Commentaries Bible Hub |