1 Chronicles 9:24

_IN FOUR QUARTERS WERE THE PORTERS, TOWARD THE EAST, WEST, NORTH, AND SOUTH._ In four quarters were the porters - i:e., the principal porters, with their assistants. TOWARD THE EAST, х_ MIZRAACH_ (H4217)] - from the rising of the sun. х_ YAAMAAH_ (H3220), seaward - i:e., west, as looking to the Mediterranean; _ TSAAPOWNAAH_ (H6828), north, because the ancients regarded the north as dark or unknown; and _ NEGBAAH_ (H5045), south, the region south of Palestine being an arid, parched desert.] These words, expressing the cardinal points of the compass, were, among the Hebrews, derived from the characteristic features of their own land, or from the prevalent impressions of the people of the direction spoken of....

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

IN FOUR QUARTERS WERE THE PORTERS,.... For, according to the Targum on 1 Chronicles 9:22 there were twenty four wards: TOWARDS THE EAST, WEST, NORTH, AND SOUTH; and, as the same paraphrase has it, six wards to the east, six to the west, six to the north, and six to the south....

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 ...

_In four quarters_ R.V. ON THE FOUR SIDES. Fuller details are given in 1 Chronicles 26:14-18....

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

GENEALOGIES (CONCLUDED) This chapter furnishes a record of the families and numbers of those who dwelt at Jerusalem after the captivity, and relates the ancestry and posterity of Saul....

THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 9 PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM – 1 CHRONICLES 9:1-34 THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN JERUSALEM – 1 CHRONICLES 9:1-9 V1 Lists of all the *Israelites were in their family records. And those records were in the book of *Israel’s kings....

IN FOUR QUARTERS WERE THE PORTERS. — “To the four winds used the warders to stand” (to be), viz., on the four sides of the tent of meeting, and from the age of Solomon on the four sides of the square enclosure of the Temple....