1 Chronicles 9:17-27
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.]
Phinehas <06372> [Phinehas.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Zechariah <02148> [Zechariah.]
settlements ............ positions <02691 0530> [in their.]
David <01732> [David.]
Samuel <08050> [Samuel.]
appointed <03245> [did ordain. Heb. founded. set office. or, trust.]
gates <08179> [the oversight.]
four <0702> [four.]
seven-day <07651> [seven.]
assigned to guard <0530> [set office. or, trust. chambers. or, storehouses. treasuries.]
assigned to guard <04931> [the charge.]
<04668> [the opening.]
1 Chronicles 15:23-24
[the priest.]
Obed-Edom <05654> [Obed-edom.]
1 Chronicles 16:38
Obed-Edom ..... Obed-Edom <05654> [Obed-edom.]
Jeduthun <03038> [Jeduthun.]
1 Chronicles 26:1-12
divisions <04256> [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.
gatekeepers <07778> [the porters.]
Korahites <07145> [Korhites.]
Meshelemiah <04920> [Meshelemiah.]
[Shelemyƒhuw <\\See definition 08018\\>,] Shelemiah, is merely an abbreviation of [Meshelemyƒh <\\See definition 04920\\>,] Meshelemiah, by the aph‘resis of [Mˆm,] {mem.}
[Shelemiah. Asaph.]
This variation arises from the rejection of the word [Ab <\\See definition 01\\>,] {av,} "father," and the mutation of [Y“wd,] {yood,} into ['Aleph,] {aleph;} being written in the parallel passages [Ebyƒcƒph <\\See definition 043\\>,] Ebiasaph, and here [Acƒph <\\See definition 0623\\>,] Asaph.
[Ebiasaph.]
Obed-Edom's <05654> [Obed-edom.]
[him.]
"That is, Obed-edom, as ch. 13:14."
highly respected <02428 01368> [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 {shâ€Æ’rim} 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.
men capable <02428 0376> [able men.]
Meshelemiah <04920> [Meshelemiah.]
Hosah <02621> [Hosah.]
father <01> [his father.]
responsibilities <04931> [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.
1 Chronicles 26:2
1 Chronicles 8:14
1 Chronicles 1:15
Hivites <02340> [Hivite.]
Ezra 7:7
Israelites <01121> [the children.]
Levites <03881> [the Levites.]
attendants <07891> [singers.]
gatekeepers <07778> [porters.]
temple servants <05411> [Nethinims.]
Artaxerxes <0783> [Artaxerxes.]
Nehemiah 7:73
Israel ............. Israelites <03478> [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.
seventh <07637> [when the seventh.]
