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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

1 Chronicles 4:23

These were the potters, the reference being to all the children and descendants of Shelah, and those that dwell among plants and hedges, probably the gardeners of the royal gardens near Jerusalem and Bethlehem; there they dwelt with the king for his work, another indication that certain trades remained in the same family from one generation to the next. It seems that the old adage of being a master of one trade and not a jack of many has good Scriptural foundation.

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See also 1 Chronicles 4:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Chronicles 4:23. _THESE_ WERE _THE POTTERS_] "These are the disciples of the law, for whose sake the world was created; who preside in judgment, and establish the world; and they build and pe...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AMONG PLANTS AND HEDGES - Rather, “in Netaim and Gederah” Joshua 15:36. WITH THE KING - Or, probably, “on the king’s property.” Both David and several of the later kings had large territorial possessi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4:1-23 ADDITIONAL GENEALOGIES OF JUDAH _ 1. The sons of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:1)_ 2. Jabez more honorable (1 Chronicles 4:9) 3. Further descendants of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:1

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, o...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THOSE THAT DWELT, &C. The inhabitants of Netaim and Gedera....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _those that dwelt amongst plants and hedges_ R.V. THE INHABITANTS OF NETAIM AND GEDERAH. _there they dwelt with the king for his work_ In the days of the kingdom the inhabitants of these villages were...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOSE THAT DWELT AMONG PLANTS AND HEDGES— _Amongst the plantations, and at Gaderah._ Houbigant. See the LXX. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Among the numerous descendants of Judah, in the line of Pharez, Jabez is...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LESSON TWO 4-6 I. GENEALOGIES FROM ADAM TO DAVID (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 9:44) 3. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH (1 Chronicles 2:1-55,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THESE WERE THE POTTERS, AND THOSE THAT DWELT AMONG PLANTS AND HEDGES: THERE THEY DWELT WITH THE KING FOR HIS WORK._ AND THOSE THAT DWELT AMONG PLANTS AND HEDGES, х_ WªYOSHªBEEY_ (H3427) _ NªTAA`IYM_...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) This chapter enumerates further descendants of Judah, and the descendants of Simeon....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AND THOSE.. HEDGES] RV 'and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah.' DWELT WITH THE KING] i.e. on the royal estate as workmen....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 4 Other families of Judah –...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THESE WERE THE POTTERS. — Viz., the clans enumerated in 1 Chronicles 4:22. AND THOSE THAT DWELT AMONG PLANTS AND HEDGES. — Rather, _and inhabitants of Net aim and Gederah._ Netaim means “plantations”...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    II. — SONS OF SHELAH, THIRD SON OF JUDAH, 1 Chronicles 4:21 (omitted by Syriac version). The Shelanite clans were not noticed in 1 Chronicles 2 (See Genesis 38:5 and...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵ֚מָּה הַ יֹּ֣וצְרִ֔ים וְ יֹשְׁבֵ֥י נְטָעִ֖ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    NAMES 1 Chronicles 1:1; 1 Chronicles 2:1; 1 Chronicles 3:1; 1 Chronicles 4:1;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here another line from Judah is traced, and must be viewed in the light of the royalty manifest in David. It is the story of the multiplication and settlement of the people who became workers in the g...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    These [were] the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: (g) there they dwelt with the king for his work. (g) They were David's gardeners and served him in his works....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Potters. Hebrew yotserim, may also designate some family, as it seems improbable that the princes, in Moab, should be reduced to so mean a condition. But we have many examples of such a fall; (Haydock...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Very honourable testimony is here given to the descendants of Judah, who excelled in different handicrafts and mechanical arts....

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 3, 4, AND 5. The genealogy of David's family is next given us, as far as several generations after the return from the captivity; and then that of the tribes...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THESE WERE THE POTTERS,.... Or are the potters; the posterity of those men, who were so famous in their day, are now of mean employments: some of them made earthen pots; and some of them DWELT AMONG...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    These [were] the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. Ver. 23. _Those that dwelt among plants and hedges._] Hedge rogues, Mr Dyke _a_ ca...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Who had the dominion in Moab_ Which they ruled in the name and for the use of the kings of Judah, to whom Moab was subject from David's time. _Ancient things_ The sense is, those blessed times are lo...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1.11 The posteritie of Iudah by Caleb the sonne of Hur. 5 Of Ashur the posthumus son of Hezron. [THE GENEALOGIE OF IUDAH.] 9 Of Iabez, and his prayer. 21 The posteritie of Shelah. 24 The posterit...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THESE WERE THE POTTERS; or rather, these are; for he seems to oppose their present servitude to their former glory and to show their low and mean spirits, that had rather tarry among the heathen to do...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Chronicles 4:23 potters H3335 (H8802) dwell H3427 (H8802) Netaim H5196 Gederah H1448 dwelt H3427 (H8804)

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 Chronicles 4:23 I. Notice how work links men to kings. Here we have potters, gardeners, and hedgers mixed up with the king. The men and women who work, whether with brain or hand, or both, are the p...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Posterity of Judah and Simeon. CHARACTERS: God, Jabez, Caleb. CONCLUSION: If we set ourselves to acknowledge God in all our ways we put ourselves under the divine blessing and protection a...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Chronicles 4:9. _Jabez,_ dolour, grief, anguish. He was honourable; the same with Othniel, according to the Targumists. 1 Chronicles 4:22. _Jokim, &c._ These four probably resided in Moab, about the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _There they dwelt with the king for his work._ WITH THE KING FOR HIS WORK (A motto for Sunday school teachers.) Work done well, however common, is accounted worthy of its wage, but work done for roya...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The sons of Judah._ SURVEY OF THE GENEALOGY I. How great the obscurity of most men! II. What folly to seek place and power only here! III. How needful to secure renown hereafter! “Rejoice that yo...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 4:1 Information about other CLANS rounds off the genealogy of Judah. Verses 1 Chronicles 4:1 supply additional detail

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 4:21 LINEN WORKERS... POTTERS. These records from before the exile to Babylon (vv. 1 Chronicles 4:22) indicate

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Obscurity often arising from brevity conspicuous in this passage. Yet we discern an order in it, indicated in first verse. It contains descendants of Shobal, Hur, Carmi, Hezron, and o...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 4:1 After the large space given to the "sons of David," of the tribe of Judah, in the previous chapter, this chapter returns for twenty-three verses to group together a few ad...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter four, we follow another line from Caleb through one of his sons called Er. And you get a different line of Caleb from that which was earlier given. Now in this particular line in verse nine...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 4:14; Psalms 81:6...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    There are — He seems to oppose their present servitude to their former glory, and to shew their mean spirits that had rather tarry among the Heathen to do their drudgery, than return to Jerusalem to s...

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