1Ch 9:17-27, 15:18, 23-24, 2Ch 23:19 | TSK | STEP

1 Chronicles 9:17-27

the porters.

Shallum.

Who hitherto waited.The original is {weäd hennah,} which Houbigant and Dr. Geddes consider as a proper name, and render, "And Adanah was over the eastern gate, called the king's;" i.e., the gate by which the kings of Judah went to the temple. The list is here nearly the same with those found in Ezra and Nehemiah, and contains those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel: but the list in Nehemiah is more ample, probably because it contains those who came afterwards; the object of the sacred writer here being to give the names of those who came first, (ver. 2.) These consisted of men belonging not only to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but to many of the other tribes of Israel, who took advantage of the proclamation of Cyrus to return to Jerusalem. Properly speaking, the divisions mentioned here constituted the whole of the Israelitish people, who were divided into priests, Levites, common Israelites, and Nethinims.

the king's.

1Ki 10:5; 2Ki 11:19; Eze 44:2,3; 46:1,2; Ac 3:11

they.

26:12-19

Ebiasaph.

6:22,23

Korah.

Nu 26:9-11; Ps 42:1; 44:1; 49:1; *titles

gates. Heb. thresholds.

Ps 84:10; *marg:

over the host.

2Ki 11:9,15; 2Ch 23:4-10