1 Chronicles 9:17-27
the porters.23:5; 26:1-32; Ne 11:19Shallum.19 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 3:11they.26:12-19 Ebiasaph.6:22,23Korah.Nu 26:9-11; Ps 42:1; 44:1; 49:1; *titlesgates. Heb. thresholds.Ps 84:10; *marg:over the host.2Ki 11:9,15; 2Ch 23:4-10keepers of the entry.26:7,8,13-19 Phinehas.Nu 3:32; 4:16,28,33; 31:6the Lord.Nu 25:11-13; 1Sa 16:18; Ac 7:9,10 Zechariah.26:14 in their.16,25; Ne 11:25-30,36; 12:28,29,44David.23:1-32; 25:1-26:32; 28:13,21Samuel.1Sa 9:9did ordain. Heb. founded. set office. or, trust.26,31 the oversight.23:32; 2Ch 23:19; Ne 12:45; Eze 44:10,11,14 four.26:14-18 seven.2Ki 11:5,7; 2Ch 23:8 set office. or, trust. chambers. or, storehouses.treasuries. 26:20-27; 2Ch 31:5-12; Ne 10:38,39; 13:5 the charge.23:32; Ro 12:7the opening.1Sa 3:15; Mal 1:101 Chronicles 15:23-24
9:21-23; 2Ki 22:4; 25:18; Ps 84:10 the priest.16:6; Nu 10:8; 2Ch 5:12,13; Ps 81:13; Joe 2:1,15Obed-edom.18,231 Chronicles 16:38
Obed-edom.13:14; 26:4-8Jeduthun.25:31 Chronicles 26:1-12
1 The divisions of the porters.13 The gates assigned by lot.20 The Levites that had charge of the treasures.29 Officers and judges. the divisions.There were four classes of these, each of which belonged to the four gates of the temple, which opened to the four cardinal points of heaven. The eastern gate fell to Shelemiah; the northern to Zechariah, (ver. 14;) the southern to Obed-edom, (ver. 15;) and the western to Shuppim and Hosah, (ver. 16.) These several persons were captains of these porter-bands, or door-keepers, at the different gates. There were probably a thousand men under each of these captains; as we find, from ch. 23:5, that their whole number was four thousand. the porters.9:17-27; 15:18,23,24; 2Ch 23:19Korhites.Nu 26:9-11; Ps 44:1; 49:1; *titlesMeshelemiah.[Shelemyâhuw ,] Shelemiah, is merely an abbreviation of [Meshelemyâh ,] Meshelemiah, by the aphæresis of [Mêm,] {mem.} 14Shelemiah. Asaph.This variation arises from the rejection of the word [Ab ,] {av,} "father," and the mutation of [Yôwd,] {yood,} into ['Aleph,] {aleph;} being written in the parallel passages [Ebyâcâph ,] Ebiasaph, and here [Acâph ,] Asaph. 6:37; 9:19Ebiasaph. 2 3 Obed-edom.15:18,21,24; 16:5,38 him."That is, Obed-edom, as ch. 13:14." Ps 128:1 mighty men of valour.They were not only porters, or door keepers, in the ordinary sense of the word, but they were a military guard to the gate, as Dr. Delaney suggests that the word {shöârim} should be rendered here: and perhaps in this sense alone are we to understand their office, which appears to have been of considerable dignity, and conferred only on men of the first rank. They were appointed to attend the temple, to guard all the avenues to it, to open and shut all the outer gates, and attend at them, not only for state but for service. They were also required to direct and instruct those who were going to worship in the courts of the sanctuary in the conduct they were to observe, to encourage those who were timid, to send back the strangers and unclean, and to guard against thieves and others who were enemies to the house of God. 8; 12:28; Jud 6:12; 2Sa 2:7; *marg:2Ch 26:17; Ne 11:14; 1Ti 6:12; 2Ti 2:3 7 able men.Mt 25:15; 1Co 12:4-11; 2Co 3:6; 1Pe 4:11 Meshelemiah.1,14 Hosah.16:38his father.5:1,2 11 wards.That is, classes against each other. Ward formerly signified a class or division: we still apply the term to the different apartments in hospitals, and to the more extensive districts into which the city of London is divided. 25:82 Chronicles 8:14
the courses.5:11; 23:4; 31:2; 1Ch 24:1-19; Lu 1:5,8the Levites.35:10; 1Ch 6:31,32-48; 15:16-22; 16:4-6,42; 23:1-32; 24:20-311Ch 25:1-31; Ezr 6:18the porters.1Ch 9:17; 26:1-19so had David the man of God commanded. Heb. so was thecommandment of David the man of God. De 33:1; 2Sa 23:2; 1Ki 13:1; 1Ch 28:19; Ac 13:22,362 Chronicles 35:15
place. Heb. station. according.29:25,26; 1Ch 16:41,42; 23:5; 25:1-7; Ps 77:1; 78:1; 79:1; *titlesthe porters.1Ch 9:17-19; 26:14-19Ezra 7:7
the children.8:1-14the Levites.2:40,41; 8:15-20singers.1Ch 6:31-48; 25:1-8porters.2:42; 1Ch 9:17-27; Ne 7:45Nethinims.24; 2:43-70; 8:20; Ne 7:46-73; 10:28Artaxerxes.11,12; 6:14; 8:1; Ne 2:1Nehemiah 7:73
all Israel.It was for the purpose of ascertaining the different families, and consequently the different cities, villages, etc., which belonged to them, according to the ancient division of the land, that the public registers were examined. when the seventh.Ezr 2:70; 3:1
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