1 Chronicles 9:19

_AND SHALLUM THE SON OF KORE, THE SON OF EBIASAPH, THE SON OF KORAH, AND HIS BRETHREN, OF THE HOUSE OF HIS FATHER, THE KORAHITES, WERE OVER THE WORK OF THE SERVICE, KEEPERS OF THE GATES OF THE TABERNACLE: AND THEIR FATHERS, BEING OVER THE HOST OF THE LORD, WERE KEEPERS OF THE ENTRY._ Shallum ... and his brethren ... the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle. They occupied a higher position, their office being more directly connected with the sacred service than the former (1 Chronicles 9:18)....

Verse 1 Chronicles 9:19. _KEEPERS OF THE ENTRY._] Whose business it was to suffer no person to come to the tabernacle but the priests, during the performance of the sacred service; see _Jarchi_....

SHALLUM THE SON OF KORE - A different person from the Shallum of 1 Chronicles 9:17, and with a different office, namely, the guarding the inner doors of the temple. The original Shallum, Shelemaiah, or Meshelemaiah, was a Levite of the time of David 1 Chronicles 26:14. His descendants were still called by his name, but had now a more important charge assigned to them....

EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 9:1 SO ALL ISRAEL WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGIES. The Hebrew verb (חִתְיַחְשׂי) is sufficiently satisfied by the rendering _were enrolled_,_ _or _were registered. _THE BOOK OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH. The book referred to is often styled "The book of the kings of Israel" (2 Chronicles 20:34; 2 Chronicles 33:18); and it is more probable that that is the intended title here, and that the words should follow thus: AND JUDAH WERE CARRIED CAPTIVE TO BABYLON BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS. This the Masoretic accenting dictates, though the Septuagint, Vulgate, an

AND SHALLUM THE SON OF KORE,.... The same as in 1 Chronicles 9:17 whose pedigree is traced up to Ebiasaph the son of Korah, see Exodus 6:24 AND HIS BRETHREN, OF THE HOUSE OF HIS FATHER, THE KORAHITES; so called, because they descended from Korah: [WERE OVER] THE WORK OF THE SERVICE, KEEPERS OF THE GATES OF THE TABERNACLE; until the temple was built: AND THEIR FATHERS BEING OVER THE HOST OF THE LORD; the Levites, who were the Lord's army, and whose service is represented as a warfare, Numbers 4:5 [WERE] KEEPERS OF THE ENTRY; into the tabernacle, that none might enter that were impure; or into the court of the priests, excepting priests; or into

7. THE RECORD OF THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM AFTER THE RETURN CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The restoration (1 Chronicles 9:1)_ 2. Different residents in Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 9:3) 3. The priests (1 Chronicles 9:10) 4. The Levites (1 Chronicles 9:14) 5. Porters and Levites; their duties (1 Chronicles 9:17) 6. The house of Saul (1 Chronicles 9:35) All Israel was

PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, often in an incomplete form: Adam to Israel (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 2:2) with the exception of Cain's descendants (Genesis 4:16) the whole material is taken from Genesis 1-36; Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3); David (1 Chronicles 3:1); Judah again, and made up of fragments ...

KORAHITES. The descendants of Korah. Compare Numbers 16; Numbers 26:9. and see Psalms 42; Psalms 44; Psalms 45; Psalms 47; Psalms 48; Psalms 49; Psalms 84; Psalms 85;...

_son of Ebiasaph_ By a misreading _Shallum_(_Meshelemiah_; see above) is said to be "of the sons of Asaph" (read "Ebiasaph") in 1 Chronicles 26:1. _of the house of his father_ R.V. OF HIS FATHER'S HOUSE. being _over the host of the Lord_, were _keepers_ R.V. HAD BEEN OVER THE CAMP OF THE LORD, KEEPERS. Nothing is said in the Pentateuch of "keepers of the entry _to the tabernacle_," and probably in the present passage the entry _to the camp_, not to the tabernacle, is meant. With this view agrees the mention of Phinehas (1 Chronicles 9:20), for it was the profanation of the camp, not of the tabernacle, which Phinehas avenged (Numbers 25:6-8),

LESSON FOUR 9-10 I. GENEALOGIES-ADAM TO DAVID 16. THE DWELLERS IN JERUSALEM (1 Chronicles 9:1-34) INTRODUCTION A brief review of certain Levites and priests who had returned from Babylonian captivity is the subject of Chapter 9. Saul's house and his ruin at the hands of the Philistines is recounted. TEXT 1 Chronicles 9:1. So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their transgression. 2. Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim. 3. And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of