1 Chronicles 26:29

_OF THE IZHARITES, CHENANIAH AND HIS SONS WERE FOR THE OUTWARD BUSINESS OVER ISRAEL, FOR OFFICERS AND JUDGES._ Officers and judges. The word rendered "officers" is the term which signifies scribes or secretaries, so that the Levitical class here described were magistrates, who, attended by their clerks, exercised judicial functions. There were 6,000 of them (1 Chronicles 23:4), who probably acted, like their brethren, on the principle of rotation, and these were divided into three classes-one (1 Chronicles 26:29) for the outward business over Israel; one (1 Chronicles 26:30), consisting of 1,700, for the west of Jordan, "in all the business of the Lord, and in the service

Verse 1 Chronicles 26:29. _OUTWARD BUSINESS_] Work done without the city; cutting of timber, hewing stones, ploughing the fields belonging to the sanctuary. - _Jarchi_....

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;...

OF THE IZHARITES, CHENANIAH AND HIS SONS were FOR THE OUTWARD BUSINESS OVER ISRAEL,.... Which was done out of the temple, and out of Jerusalem, in the several parts of the country: FOR OFFICERS AND JUDGES; to administer justice and judgment, and to take care that the laws of God were observed, both with respect to things civil and religious, and delinquents punished; which is a better sense than what Jarchi and Kimchi put upon this, OUTWARD BUSINESS, as if it lay in taking care to have timber cut down in the forest, and stones dug and hewed in the mountains, for the building of the temple; and that the lands were ploughed, and the vineyards, gardens, and orchards, dressed, which were devoted to sacred uses....

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

OUTWARD BUSINESS: outside the Temple (Nehemiah 10:32; Nehemiah 11:16), as distinguished from the worship within (which was the "business of the house of God". Nehemiah 11:22). OFFICERS AND JUDGES. See Deuteronomy 16:18 (same Hebrew), 6,000 appointed. Provision made for them in Exodus 18:13....

Various Offices 20. _And_of _the Levites, Ahijah_was _over_ Read (with LXX.; cp. R.V. marg.), AND THE LEVITES THEIR BRETHREN WERE OVER. The confusion of readings is easy in Hebrew; cp. 1 Chronicles 2:25 for a similar case. _the treasures_ R.V. THE TREASURIES; so in 1 Chronicles 26:22; 1 Chronicles 26:24; 1 Chronicles 26:26; and so in 1 Chronicles 28:11-12 (A.V.). _the dedicate_things] Cp....

WERE FOR THE OUTWARD BUSINESS— That is, the business without the city of Jerusalem, which consisted in their being assessors with the ordinary judges. By the _business of the Lord,_ in the next verse, is meant such causes as might be judged by the divine law; by _the service of the king,_ such causes as were not determined by the law, but were left to the judgment of the king. See Bertram de Rep. Jud. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The porters seem to have been divided into the same number of courses as the rest of their brethren, each posted at their several gates by lot. They are spoken of as mighty men, strong and able, such as their post required, to keep constant guard, that no profane intruder might be admitted, nor the sacred house violated. The family of Obed-edom were employed in this office. He was blessed with a numerous family, and none more deserving of keeping the charge of the temple,...

19. THE OFFICERS AND THE JUDGES (1 Chronicles 26:29-32) TEXT 1 Chronicles 26:29. Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges. 30. Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valor, a thousand and seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Jehovah, and for the service of the king. 31. Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers-' houses. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilead. 32. And his brethren, men of valor, were two thousand and seven hundred, heads of fathers-' houses, whom kin