1 Chronicles 26:1

_CONCERNING THE DIVISIONS OF THE PORTERS: OF THE KORHITES WAS MESHELEMIAH THE SON OF KORE, OF THE SONS OF ASAPH._ Concerning the divisions of the porters. There were 4,000 (1 Chronicles 23:5), all taken from the families of the Kohathites and Merarites, divided into twenty-four courses-as the priests and musicians. MESHELEMIAH THE SON OF KORE, OF THE SONS OF ASAPH. Seven sons of Meshelemiah are mentioned, 1 Chronicles 26:2, whereas eighteen are given, 1 Chronicles 26:9; but in this latter number his relatives are included....

CHAPTER XXVI _The divisions of the porters_, 1-12. _The gates assigned to them_, 13-19. _Those who were over the treasures_, 20-28. _Different officers_, 29-32. NOTES ON CHAP. XXVI Verse 1 Chronicles 26:1. _THE DIVISIONS OF THE PORTERS_] There were four classes of these, each of which belonged to one of the four gates of the temple, which opened to the four cardinal points of heaven. The _eastern_ gate fell to Shelemiah; the _northern_, to Zechariah, 1 Chronicles 26:14; the _southern_, to Obed-edom,...

THE PORTERS - See 1Ch 9:17-27; 1 Chronicles 23:5....

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. 1 CHRONICLES 26:1 The subject of the porters has been before us in 1 Chronicles 9:17-13; 1 Chronicles 15:23, 1 Chronicles 15:24; 1 Chronicles 16:38;...

CONCERNING THE DIVISIONS OF THE PORTERS,.... Or doorkeepers, whose business it was to open and shut the doors of the temple, to keep all impure and improper persons from entering into it, or any of the vessels being carried out of it, and to prevent tumults and riots about it; these, as it seems, David divided into a like number of classes, as the singers, to take their turns in waiting: OF THE KORHITES WAS MESHELEMIAH THE SON OF KORE, OF THE SONS OF ASAPH; not Asaph the singer, who was a Gershonite, but the same with Eliasaph, 1 Chronicles 6:23 a Korhite....

5. THE PORTERS AND OTHER TEMPLE OFFICERS CHAPTER 26 _ 1. The porters (1 Chronicles 26:1)_ 2. The keepers of the gates (1 Chronicles 26:13) 3. The Levites over the treasures (1 Chronicles 26:20) 4. Officers and judges (1 Chronicles 26:29) Ninety-three porters are mentioned, which held the position of chiefs. The whole number of porters was 4,000 (1 Chronicles 23:5). Asaph in verse 1 must be changed to Ebiasaph (9:19), for Asaph was not a Korahite,

FURTHER LEVITICAL TEMPLE OFFICIALS. These include the gatekeepers (1 Chronicles 26:1), those who were over the treasuries (1 Chronicles 26:20), and the officers and judges who were for the outward business over Israel (1 Chronicles 26:29). 1 Chronicles 26:12 ff. In what the Chronicler says about the Temple he is guided by the Temple with which he was familiar, viz. the post-exilic one built by Zerubbabel. 1 Chronicles 26:18. Parbar: see RVm; perhaps from a Persian

DIVISIONS. courses. The names of the chiefs are given, as of the courses of priests and Levites. PORTERS. gatekeepers. See 1Ch 9:17, 1 Chronicles 9:18; 1 Chronicles 15:18....

1 Chronicles 26:1-12 (cp. 1 Chronicles 9:17-27). The Courses of the Doorkeepers 1. _Concerning the divisions of the porters_ R.V. FOR THE COURSES OF THE DOORKEEPERS. _Korhites_ R.V. KORAHITES; 1 Chronicles 9:19. _Meshelemiah … Asaph_ For the names of the doorkeepers see notes on 1 Chronicles 9:17, and for _Asaph_see note on 1 Chronicles 9:19....

THE PORTERS— The word שׁעוים _shoarim_ should be rendered _guards,_ according to Dr. Delaney. This was an office of dignity, and conferred on men of the best quality, as appears plainly from this chapter....