John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 26:10
Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons ,.... Who was a fellow porter of Obededom's at the ark, 1 Chronicles 16:38 . Simri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief) ; the firstborn being unfit for service, either through want of an intellectual capacity, or of strength of body, or through some defect or another; according to the Syriac version, he was dead; so some understand the words, he, the father, had no firstborn remaining or... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 26:1-19
Observe, I. There were porters appointed to attend the temple, who guarded all the avenues that let to it, opened and shut all the outer gates and attended at them, not only for the state, but for service, to direct and instruct those who were going to worship in the courts of the sanctuary in the decorum they were to observe, to encourage those that were timorous, to send back the strangers and unclean, and to guard against thieves and others that were enemies to the house of God. In allusion... read more