2 Samuel 8:16

recorder Or, remembrancer, a state officer of high rank, who seems not only to have kept a record of events, but to have acted as the king's adviser. His importance is indicated by 2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:37, where he appears as one of the king's representatives, and 2 Chronicles 34:8, where he is mentioned as one of the commissioners for restoring the Temple. The traveller Chardin describes a similar officer of the Persian court, whose duty it is to furnish the king and his ministers with an account of all important events that take place in the kingdom, and to keep a record of them, and also to register the royal acts and decrees. Travels, III., p. 328.