What does 1 Chronicles 26:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two."
Verse 1 Chronicles 26:17. _EASTWARD_ WERE _SIX LEVITES_] It is supposed that there were more guards set at this _eastern gate_, because it was more frequented than the others. At each of the other gat...
TOWARD ASUPPIM TWO AND TWO - It is conjectured that the “store-house” in question (1 Chronicles 26:15 note) had two doors, to each of which two porters were appointed....
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...
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 bus...
_toward Asuppim_ R.V. FOR THE STOREHOUSE....
18. THE GATEKEEPERS (1 Chronicles 26:1-28) TEXT 1 Chronicles 26:1. For the courses of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. 2. And Meshelemiah had sons...
_EASTWARD WERE SIX LEVITES, NORTHWARD FOUR A DAY, SOUTHWARD FOUR A DAY, AND TOWARD ASUPPIM TWO AND TWO._ Eastward were six Levites - because the gate there was the most frequented. Four at the north...
PARTICULARS RESPECTING VARIOUS TEMPLE OFFICIALS 1. The divisions of the porters] i.e. the courses of the gate-keepers or sentries who stood on guard at the entrances of the Temple. They were drawn fr...
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 26 THE *TEMPLE GUARDS – 1 CHRONICLES 26:1-19 V1 These are the groups of the *temple guards: From the *clan of Ko...
EASTWARD WERE SIX LEVITES. — Literally, _To the east the Levites were six; to the northward for the day four; to the southward for the day four; and to the Stores two two_ (_i.e., two apiece,_ or _two...
לַ † מִּזְרָח֮ הַ לְוִיִּ֣ם שִׁשָּׁה֒ לַ † צָּפֹ֤ונָה לַ † יֹּום֙ אַרְבָּעָ֔ה לַ † נֶּ֥ג
In no particular did the arrangements of the king fall short. Not only Levites, priests, and singers were arranged for, but porters also, and such as had charge of all the stores set apart for the sac...
Eastward [were] six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim (i) two [and] two. (i) Meaning two one day and two another....
_Six. This gate was the most frequented, (Calmet) and the king entered by it. --- Council. Hebrew asupim, as [in] ver. 15, "for the offerings two and two," (Haydock) distinct from the porters._...
The office of a porter in the temple, must certainly have been an office of high repute and importance, as appears by the characters given of such to whose lot it fell. They are said to be mighty men...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 THROUGH 27. From this chapter to Verses 28, 29 of chapter 26 all refers to the house which is to be built. We see the provision that David made of everythi...
EASTWARD WERE SIX LEVITES,.... The eastern gate, being the way of entrance into the temple, required more porters: NORTHWARD FOUR A DAY; in the daytime, or every day, where was the gate Teri or Tedi,...
_Eastward were six Levites_ For that, being the chief gate of the temple, required a better guard. _Toward Asuppim_ That is, _the house of Asuppim_, as it is called 1 Chronicles 26:15, where also it i...
1 The diuisions of the porters. 13 The gates assigned by lot. 20 The Leuites that had charge of the treasures. 29 Officers and Iudges. 1 CONCERNING the diuisions of the porters: of the Korhites wa...
The Other Levitical offices. Division and Work of the Porters....
EASTWARD WERE SIX LEVITES; for that being the chief gate of the temple, required a better guard. TOWARD ASUPPIM, i.e., _the house of Asuppim_, as it is called, 1 CHRONICLES 26:15, where also it is sai...
1 Chronicles 26:17 east H4217 six H8337 Levites H3881 north H6828 four H702 day H3117 south H5045 four H702 day H3117 storehouse H624 two H8147 two H8147 Eastward - 1 Chronicles 9:24; 2 Chronicles 8:...
CONTENTS: The division of the temple porters. Levites as treasurers. Officers and judges CHARACTERS: God, Shelemiah, Zechariah, Shuppin, Hozah, Obed-edom. CONCLUSION: Whatever service God wishes men...
1 Chronicles 26:28. _Joab had dedicated_ the spoils of war. Cyrus set apart the tenth of all his spoils for the gods. It was much the same among the Jews: in a line from Abraham, who gave the tenths t...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 26:1 See 1 Chronicles 9:17 and 1 Chronicles 23:4. The Levitical gatekeepers were to safeguard the sanctuary from trespassers and from idolatrous practices (see 2 Chro...
CRITICAL NOTES.] The courses of the porters (1 Chronicles 26:1); lots cast for gate-keepers (1 Chronicles 26:13); keepers of treasures (1 Chronicles 26:20); the officers and the judges (1 Chronicles 2...
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 t...
Chapter twenty-six: the division of the porters and then their assignment over the various gates around the temple. And then in verse twenty: those who had charge over the treasures of the house of th...
1 Chronicles 26:15; 1 Chronicles 9:24; 2 Chronicles 8:14...
Six — For that being the chief gate of the temple required a better guard....