1 Chronicles 9:1-44

GENEALOGIES (CONCLUDED) This chapter furnishes a record of the families and numbers of those who dwelt at Jerusalem after the captivity, and relates the ancestry and posterity of Saul.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 9:2

NOW THE FIRST INHABITANTS, etc.] This section (1 Chronicles 9:2) relates to the reoccupation of Jerusalem after the return from the exile, and appears to be a defective duplicate of Nehemiah 11:3 with some variations in the names. THE ISRAELITES] i.e. the lay population as contrasted with the eccle... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 9:11

THE RULER OF THE HOUSE OF GOD] applied in 2 Chronicles 31:10; 2 Chronicles 31:13 to the high priest, but in 2 Chronicles 35:3 to others besides.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 9:18

THE KING'S GATE] In pre-exilic times this communicated between the Temple and the royal palace (2 Kings 16:18). THE COMPANIES] RV 'the camp': the phrase is transferred from the time of the wanderings, certain positions in the Temple corresponding to similar positions in the camp of the wilderness.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 9:35

AND IN GIBEON, etc.] This account of Saul's ancestry and descendants is repeated from 1 Chronicles 8:29 as an introduction to the narrative of his death given in 1 Chronicles 10.... [ Continue Reading ]

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