1 Chronicles 9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9

This chapter intimates to us that one end of recording all these genealogies was to direct the Jews, now that they had returned out of captivity, with whom to incorporate and where to reside; for here we have an account of those who first took possession of Jerusalem after their return from Babylon, and began the rebuilding of it upon the old foundation. I. The Israelites, 1 Chron. 9:2-9. II. The priests, 1 Chron. 9:10-13. III. The Levites and other Nethinim, 1 Chron. 9:14-26. IV. Here is the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:1-13

1 Chron. 9:1 looks back upon the foregoing genealogies, and tells us they were gathered out of the books of the kings of Israel and Judah, not that which we have in the canon of scripture, but another civil record, which was authentic, as the king's books with us. Mentioning Israel and Judah, the historian takes notice of their being carried away to Babylon for their transgression. Let that judgment never be forgotten, but ever be remembered, for warning to posterity to take heed of those sins... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:14-34

We have here a further account of the good posture which the affairs of religion were put into immediately upon the return of the people out of Babylon. They had smarted for their former neglect of ordinances and under the late want of ordinances. Both these considerations made them very zealous and forward in setting up the worship of God among them; so they began their worship of God at the right end. Instances hereof we have here. I. Before the house of the Lord was built they had the house... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:35-44

1 Chron. 9:35-44 are the very same with 1 Chron. 8:29-38, giving an account of the ancestors of Saul and the posterity of Jonathan. There it is the conclusion of the genealogy of Benjamin; here it is an introduction to the story of Saul. We take the repetition as we find it; but if we admit that there are in the originals, especially in these books, some errors of the transcribers, I should be tempted to think this repetition arose from a blunder. Some one, in copying out these genealogies,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 9 The genealogies of the several tribes being given, according as they were written in the books of the kings of Israel, 1 Chronicles 9:1 , an account follows of those who first settled in Jerusalem after their return from the Babylonish captivity; of the Israelites, 1 Chronicles 9:2 , of the priests, 1 Chronicles 9:10 of the Levites, and of the charge and offices of several of the priests and Levites, 1 Chronicles 9:14 , and the chapter is concluded... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:1

So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies ,.... Not now by the writer of this book in the preceding chapters; for two of the tribes are not reckoned at all, and the rest but in part; but there had been kept an exact account of them: and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel ; not in the canonical book or books of Kings, but in the annals, journals, and diaries, which each king took care to be kept with some exactness, often referred to in the preceding books; out... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:2

Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities ,.... Who first returned from Babylon upon the proclamation of Cyrus, and enjoyed their former possessions, and dwelt in the cities they had before, or in such as were allotted them, or they chose: were , the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims ; the whole body that returned were divided into four classes, as they had been before the captivity; the Israelites were the common people in general, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:3

And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin ,.... Of which tribes were the largest number that went into, and returned out of, captivity: and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh ; such of those tribes who had joined the others when Jeroboam introduced his idolatry, or had fled to them when Samaria was besieged and taken by Shalmaneser, and so went into captivity with Judah, and now returned; and as many of them as took the advantage of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:4

Uthai, the son of Ammihud ,.... Called Athaiah, Nehemiah 11:4 though his ancestors there are differently reckoned here; his genealogy here is traced from his father Ammihud, through Omri, Imri, Bani, Pharez, to Judah. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:5

And of the Shilonites ,.... Not called so from the city of Shiloh, which was in Ephraim; whereas these here intended were of the tribe of Judah, and were either the descendants of a man whose name was Shiloni, Nehemiah 11:5 or rather these are the same with the Shelanites, Numbers 26:20 so called from Shelah the son of Judah; and so the Targum here is,"and of the tribe of Shelah:" Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons ; the same with Maaseiah, Nehemiah 11:5 . read more

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