1 Chronicles 9:25

_AND THEIR BRETHREN, WHICH WERE IN THEIR VILLAGES, WERE TO COME AFTER SEVEN DAYS FROM TIME TO TIME WITH THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

See the marginal references. If the number of warders was, as stated in Nehemiah (Nehemiah 11:19) 172 (i. e. 168 besides the four chief warders), and the number employed at any one time was, as under David 1 Chronicles 26:17, twenty-four, then the turn of the courses to keep ward came every seven weeks....

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 THEIR BRETHREN, WHICH WERE IN THEIR VILLAGES,.... Assigned them to dwell in: WERE TO COME AFTER SEVEN DAYS FROM TIME TO TIME WITH THEM; there was a new course of them every week; the old ones went off of duty, and another course succeeded, which came out of the villages where they dwelt, and the old course retired to theirs....

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 ...

which were _in their villages_ R.V. IN THEIR VILLAGES. No special villages inhabited by porters are mentioned, but perhaps porters as well as singers dwelt in the "villages of the Netophathites" (1 Chronicles 9:16; Nehemiah 12:28, R.V.). _after seven days_ R.V. EVERY SEVEN DAYS. _with them_ R.V. TO BE WITH THEM....

AND THEIR BRETHREN, &C.— _And their brethren were in their villages, that they might come at set times after seven days; for they had their stated turns;_ 1 Chronicles 9:26 _and with these were four chief porters, Levites, who were over,_ &c. 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

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....