Week 20 1 Chronicles 24
About 20-seconds into the chapter I was already thinking: this content is completely useless to me.
So anyway I’m lucky that I read in a pretty steady state of thinking-adjusting-reacting-assessing and so pretty quickly I realized that panning chapter 24 was just a knee-jerk reaction on my part. I needed to pull-back. Not take myself too seriously.
The idea of ‘total uselessness’ isn’t really fair. What I could say (to be more fair) is that today chapter 24 was pulsating in my head with powerful vibrations of irrelevance. The most I could say is that today chapter 24 seemed useless-to-me.
What that means is that I don’t get to say chapter 24 is absolutely useless. For instance I’m pretty sure it was useful – maybe necessary – instruction to the OT priestly class. The way it divided & organized people & clans could have been precedent-setting and it might have influenced tasks & responsibilities for centuries. Still…even if that’s true my personal interest in the chapter is very minimal.
One thing I notice at the end is that all these religious assignments were done publicly ‘in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the family leaders of the priests and the Levites’. So…fair enough. David was a key player and organizer with a vested interest in religious practice. But a niggling question I’ll be keeping in the back of my mind is: shouldn’t David (the head-of-state) be at arms-length from the priesthood (the religious department of the state)?
Note: quote from 1 Chronicles 24:31 (NLT).