1 Chronicles 26:1

EXPOSITION

This chapter is occupied in its first nineteen verses with an enumeration of the porters and Then of their arrangement. The porters were those who were to have charge of the entrances of the sanctuary. For at present, all was in plan only, thus set out by David beforehand.

The subject of the porters has been before us in 1 Chronicles 9:17-27 ; 1 Chronicles 15:23 , 1 Chronicles 15:24 ; 1 Chronicles 16:38 ; 1 Chronicles 23:5 , in which last passage we are told that there were four thousand of the Levites who were porters. The divisions of the porters spoken of in the present chapter were from the sons of Korah or Kore, and Merari ( 1 Chronicles 23:10 , 1 Chronicles 23:19 ). The Korahite porters are given us in the first nine verses. The first mentioned is Meshelemiah , who, though called the same in 1 Chronicles 23:2 , 1 Chronicles 23:9 , appears as Shelemiah in 1 Chronicles 23:14 , and in 1 Chronicles 9:19 as Shallum. Asaph , given here as one of the ancestors, must be replaced by Ebi-asaph ( 1 Chronicles 6:23 , 1 Chronicles 6:37 ; 1 Chronicles 9:19 ; also Exodus 6:24 ), who was a Korahite, whereas Asaph was a Gershonite ( 1 Chronicles 6:39 , 1 Chronicles 6:43 ).