2 Samuel 8:16

Was recorder. — This was a different office from that of “the scribe” (filled by Seraiah), and appears from 2 Kings 18:18; 2 Chronicles 34:8, to have been one of considerable importance. (Comp. also Esther 6:1.) His duty is supposed to have been something like that of the modern “chancellor,” and he not only registered the king’s decrees, but was his adviser. The same person continued to fill the office in the early years of Solomon’s reign (1 Kings 4:3).