1 Chronicles 9:16-18

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:16

And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah ,.... Called Abda the son of Shammua, Nehemiah 11:17 . the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun ; who was Ethan, another of the singers in the time of David: and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites ; the villages about Netophah, which was in the tribe of Judah, 1 Chronicles 2:54 , Nehemiah 7:26 which may be understood either of Elkanah, the ancestor of Berechiah, whose dwelling was there; or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:17

And the porters ,.... Or keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren; Shallum was the chief ; of these four porters, and their brethren. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:18

Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward ,.... At the gate through which the king went into the temple, and was at the east of it; and here these porters were placed in the same order after the captivity, and their return from it, as before: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi ; or in the camp of Levi, which was placed around the tabernacle, as in the wilderness: the Septuagint version is, "these are the gates of the camp of the children of Levi"; at which... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 9:18

The king ' s gate - That by which the kings of Judah went to the temple; see on 2 Kings 16:18 ; (note). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:14-16

The corresponding account of these Levites ( Nehemiah 11:15-18 ) has some additional details—as, for instance, that the number of "the Levites in the holy city were two hundred four score and four;" that two "of the chief of the Levites, Shabbethai and Jozabad," not given here, "had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;" that "Mattaniah… was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer;" and that Bakbukiah (hero called Bakbakkar) was "the second among his brethren."... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:17

The porters here are those who had charge of the entrances to the sanctuary. The word employed ( שֹׁעֵר ) is used, however, generally of gate or door keepers. Their number, stated in 1 Chronicles 9:22 as two hundred and twelve, is probably corrected in Nehemiah 11:19 to one hundred and seventy-two, made up of twenty-four for every week ( 1 Chronicles 26:17 , 1 Chronicles 26:18 ), "entering on the sabbath" upon their work ( 2 Kings 11:5 ; 2 Chronicles 23:4 ), in rotation for... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 9:18

Hitherto (so John 5:17 ). The reference must be to Shallum, for see 1 Chronicles 9:24-26 and Ezekiel 46:1-3 . The meaning of the remaining sentence of this verse is, "These were the gate-keepers for the Levite encampments side," or what, in later temple times, answered to it. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 9:18

Who hitherto waited - Translate, “Who to this day waits. These were the porters in the stations of the sons of Levi.” The words of the first clause refer to Shallum, and imply that, whereas Shallum (or his house) had originally the general superintendence of the temple gates, a change had been made when the author wrote, and Shallum’s charge had become the east gate only. The second clause means; “these were the porters in those fixed stations at the outer gates of the Temple, which... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Chronicles 9:16-17

1 Chronicles 9:16-17. The villages of the Netophathite Or, Netophathites: which were in Judah, 1 Chronicles 2:54. Here they now dwelt, either because their proper cities were not yet built; or because they were not yet numerous enough to replenish them. The porters were, &c. Whose office it was to keep all the gates of the temple, that no unclean person or thing might enter into it. read more

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