1 Chronicles 9:17-19
gatekeepers <07778> [the porters.]
Shallum ........ Shallum <07967> [Shallum.]
King's <04428> [Who hitherto waited.]
The original is {we„d 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.
King's <04428> [the king's.]
gatekeepers <07778> [they.]
Ebiasaph <043> [Ebiasaph.]
Korah <07141> [Korah.]
entrance <05592> [gates. Heb. thresholds.]
dwelling place <04264> [over the host.]
guard .......... guarded ... entrance <08104 03996> [keepers of the entry.]
1 Chronicles 26:14-19
Shelemiah <08018> [Shelemiah.]
[Meshelemiah. Zechariah.]
storehouses <0624> [Asuppim. Heb. gatherings. <\\See definition 0624\\>.]
Or collections; probably the place where either the supplies of the porters, or the offerings made for the priests and Levites, were laid up. Obed-edom is said to have had the charge of the treasures, etc., in 2 Ch 25:24.
Hosah <02621> [Hosah.]
Shalleketh <07996> [Shallecheth.]
That is, ejection; probably the gate through which all the filth which from time to time might accumulate in the temple and its courts, was cast out.
road <04546> [causeway.]
guard ... adjacent ... another <04929 05980> [ward against ward.]
That is, their stations were opposite to each other; as the north to the south, and the east to the west.
east <04217> [Eastward.]
storehouses <0624> [Asuppim.]
court ................ court <06503> [Parbar.]
{Parbar} is most probably the same as {parwar,} which denotes suburbs, (2 Ki 23:11,) in which sense it is often used in the Chaldee Targums; and consequently this may be considered as leading to the suburbs.
Korah <07145> [Kore.]
Kore, or rather, Kohri, [QorchŒy <\\See definition 07145\\>,] is essentially the same with [Q“rach <\\See definition 07141\\>,] Korah, merely having a paragogic [Y“wd,] {yood.}
[Korah.]
