1 Chronicles 26:15

_TO OBEDEDOM SOUTHWARD; AND TO HIS SONS THE HOUSE OF ASUPPIM._ The house of Asuppim - or collections; probably a storehouse, where were kept the grain, wine, and other offerings for the sustenance of the priests....

Verse 1 Chronicles 26:15. _THE HOUSE OF ASUPPIM._] The house of the _collections_; the place where either the supplies of the porters, or the offerings made for the use of the priests and Levites, were laid up....

THE HOUSE OF ASUPPIM - literally, “the house of collections” (see the margin and compare Nehemiah 12:25 margin). A treasure-house of some kind or other is probably intended....

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;...

TO OBEDEDOM SOUTHWARD,.... Where were two gates in later times, called the gates of Huldah x: AND TO HIS SONS, THE HOUSE OF ASUPPIM; the word has the signification of gathering, hence some take it to be a council house, where the sanhedrim or elders gathered together, and sat; and others, rather a treasure house, where things of value were collected and laid up, since Obededom had the charge of gold and silver, and the vessels of the house, 2 Chronicles 25:24, but Dr. Lightfoot y is of opinion, that "Asuppim were two gates in the western wall, which stood most south, or nearest to Jerusalem; "and the house of Asuppim" was a large piece of building that ran between them, which was a treasury, or various rooms for treasuring or laying up something for the use of the temple;'' though L'Empereur thinks z it was the chamber Korban, which i

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

HOUSE OF ASUPPIM. the treasuries (from Hebrew. _'asaph,_ to gather). Compare 2 Chronicles 25:24, where Joash took what was in Obed-edom's charge. So named because of the two gates called Asuppim....

_the house of Asuppim_ R.V. THE STOREHOUSE....

THE HOUSE OF ASUPPIM— _The storehouse,_ or that place in which the provision of the porters was laid up. Houbigant. See Micah 7:1 and Nehemiah 12:25 in the Hebrew. Others suppose, that it was a place where the vessels and treasure of the temple were deposited....