1 Chronicles 26 - Introduction
_THE DIVISION OF THE PORTERS: THE SEVERAL GATES ASSIGNED THEM. THE LEVITES WHO HAD CHARGE OF THE TREASURES. THE OFFICERS AND JUDGES._ _Before Christ 1015._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE DIVISION OF THE PORTERS: THE SEVERAL GATES ASSIGNED THEM. THE LEVITES WHO HAD CHARGE OF THE TREASURES. THE OFFICERS AND JUDGES._ _Before Christ 1015._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PORTERS— The word שׁעוים _shoarim_ should be rendered _guards,_ according to Dr. Delaney. This was an office of dignity, and conferred on men of the best quality, as appears plainly from this chapter.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HOUSE OF ASUPPIM— _The storehouse,_ or that place in which the provision of the porters was laid up. Houbigant. See Micah 7:1 and Nehemiah 12:25 in the Hebrew. Others suppose, that it was a place where the vessels and treasure of the temple were deposited.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH THE GATE SHALLECHETH, &C.— _With the gate of ejections,_ [or by which the filth of the temple and of the courts was cast out] _towards the paved ascent._ Houbigant. In the 17th verse, instead of _four a day,_ Houbigant reads _four Levites._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND OF THE LEVITES, AHIJAH, &C.— _But their brethren the Levites were over,_ &c. Houbigant, who reads the 21st and 22nd verses thus: 1 Chronicles 26:21. _The sons of Laadan; of the sons of Laadan the Gershonite, the chiefs of the family of Laadan the Gershonite, were Jehiel, and his sons:_ 1 Chronic... [ Continue Reading ]
WERE FOR THE OUTWARD BUSINESS— That is, the business without the city of Jerusalem, which consisted in their being assessors with the ordinary judges. By the _business of the Lord,_ in the next verse, is meant such causes as might be judged by the divine law; by _the service of the king,_ such cause... [ Continue Reading ]