1 Chronicles 9:22

_ALL THESE WHICH WERE CHOSEN TO BE PORTERS IN THE GATES WERE TWO HUNDRED AND TWELVE. THESE WERE RECKONED BY THEIR GENEALOGY IN THEIR VILLAGES, WHOM DAVID AND SAMUEL THE SEER DID ORDAIN IN THEIR SET OFFICE._ All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. So great a number being appointed to posts of the nature specified, implies that they performed their duties by a system of rotation. THESE WERE RECKONED BY THEIR GENEALOGY IN THEIR VILLAGES, WHOM DAVID AND SAMUEL THE SEER DID ORDAIN. For a long time after the entrance into Canaan there was great disorder and irregularity prevailing among the Levites, both as to the time and manner of discharging their sacred duties. Samuel, among the many important services which, by his public administration as a judge, he rendered to his country, devised a plan for the methodical arrangement of the Levitical func...

The porters, like the singers Nehemiah 12:29, dwelt for the most part in the villages round Jerusalem. They were the descendants of those originally selected for the work by David. David’s arrangements are here regarded as having had the sanction of Samuel - which would imply that he planned them in the lifetime of Saul, while he was still a fugitive and an outlaw....

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

ALL THOSE THAT WERE CHOSEN TO BE PORTERS IN THE GATES WERE TWO HUNDRED AND TWELVE,.... As fixed in the days of David, and might not be fewer: THESE WERE RECKONED BY THEIR GENEALOGIES IN THEIR VILLAGES; where they dwelt: WHOM DAVID AND SAMUEL THE SEER DID ORDAIN IN THEIR SET OFFICE; the scheme was first drawn by Samuel the prophet, and communicated to David, who put it into execution, to be constantly and perpetually observed....

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 ...

TWO HUNDRED AND TWELVE. These were for the Tabernacle (1 Chronicles 9:21). In Nehemiah 11:19, it is 172, excluding those in the villages. Not the 4,000 of 1 Chronicles 23:5, or their ninety-three heads (1 Chronicles 26), which were for the future Temple. THEIR GENEALOGY. [Was registered] in their villages. There is no record of this. But Samuel stood at the head. DID ORDAIN. founded Compare 1 Chronicles 23:1. Compare Ac

_All these_ Cp. Ezra 2:41 (Nehemiah 7:45); Nehemiah 11:19. The discrepancy in numbers between Chron. and Neh. and also between Nehemiah 7 and Nehemiah 11 may be explained by supposing some difference in the manner of reckoning or some difference in the period referred to _in their villages_ Cp. note on 1 Chronicles 9:16. _David and Samuel the seer_ The Chronicler attributes to David the organisation of the priests ...

IN THEIR SET OFFICE— _In their stations._ Houbigant....

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