_CONCERNING THE DIVISIONS OF THE PORTERS: OF THE KORHITES WAS MESHELEMIAH THE SON OF KORE, OF THE SONS OF ASAPH._ Concerning the divisions of the porters. There were 4,000 (1 Chronicles 23:5), all taken from the families of the Kohathites and Merarites, divided into twenty-four courses-as the pries... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF MESHELEMIAH WERE, ZECHARIAH THE FIRSTBORN, JEDIAEL THE SECOND, ZEBADIAH THE THIRD, JATHNIEL THE FOURTH,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AMMIEL THE SIXTH, ISSACHAR THE SEVENTH, PEULTHAI THE EIGHTH: FOR GOD BLESSED HIM._ God blessed him - i:e., Obed-edom. The occasion of the blessing was his faithful custody of the ark (2 Samuel 6:11), and the nature of the blessing (Psalms 127:5) consisted in the great increase of progeny by which... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO UNTO SHEMAIAH HIS SON WERE SONS BORN, THAT RULED THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHER: FOR THEY WERE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR._ Mighty men of valour. The circumstance of physical strength is prominently noticed in this chapter, as the office of the porters required them not only to act as sentine... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SONS OF SHEMAIAH; OTHNI, AND REPHAEL, AND OBED, ELZABAD, WHOSE BRETHREN WERE STRONG MEN, ELIHU, AND SEMACHIAH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO HOSAH, OF THE CHILDREN OF MERARI, HAD SONS; SIMRI THE CHIEF, (FOR THOUGH HE WAS NOT THE FIRSTBORN, YET HIS FATHER MADE HIM THE CHIEF;)_ Simri the chief ... though ... not the firstborn. Probably because the family entitled to the right of primogeniture had died out, or because there were none... [ Continue Reading ]
_HILKIAH THE SECOND, TEBALIAH THE THIRD, ZECHARIAH THE FOURTH: ALL THE SONS AND BRETHREN OF HOSAH WERE THIRTEEN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AMONG THESE WERE THE DIVISIONS OF THE PORTERS, EVEN AMONG THE CHIEF MEN, HAVING WARDS ONE AGAINST ANOTHER, TO MINISTER IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD._ Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men. These were charged with the duty of superintending the watches, being heads of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY CAST LOTS, AS WELL THE SMALL AS THE GREAT, ACCORDING TO THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, FOR EVERY GATE._ They cast lots. Their departments of duty, such as the gates they should attend to, were allotted in the same manner as those of the other Levitical bodies, and the names of the chiefs or... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LOT EASTWARD FELL TO SHELEMIAH. THEN FOR ZECHARIAH HIS SON, A WISE COUNSELLER, THEY CAST LOTS; AND HIS LOT CAME OUT NORTHWARD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_TO OBEDEDOM SOUTHWARD; AND TO HIS SONS THE HOUSE OF ASUPPIM._ The house of Asuppim - or collections; probably a storehouse, where were kept the grain, wine, and other offerings for the sustenance of the priests.... [ Continue Reading ]
_TO SHUPPIM AND HOSAH THE LOT CAME FORTH WESTWARD, WITH THE GATE SHALLECHETH, BY THE CAUSEWAY OF THE GOING UP, WARD AGAINST WARD._ The gate Shallecheth - probably the rubbish gate, through which all the accumulated filth and sweepings of the temple and its courts were poured out. BY THE CAUSEWAY... [ Continue Reading ]
_EASTWARD WERE SIX LEVITES, NORTHWARD FOUR A DAY, SOUTHWARD FOUR A DAY, AND TOWARD ASUPPIM TWO AND TWO._ Eastward were six Levites - because the gate there was the most frequented. Four at the north gate; four at the south, at the storehouse which was adjoining the south, and which had two entrance... [ Continue Reading ]
_AT PARBAR WESTWARD, FOUR AT THE CAUSEWAY, AND TWO AT PARBAR._ Parbar - is, perhaps, the same Parvar (suburbs, 2 Kings 23:11.), and if so, this gate might be so called, as leading to the suburbs.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE ARE THE DIVISIONS OF THE PORTERS AMONG THE SONS OF KORE, AND AMONG THE SONS OF MERARI._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND OF THE LEVITES, AHIJAH WAS OVER THE TREASURES OF THE HOUSE OF GOD, AND OVER THE TREASURES OF THE DEDICATED THINGS._ Of the Levites, Ahijah. The heading of this section is altogether strange as it stands, because it looks as if the sacred historian were going to commence a new subject different... [ Continue Reading ]
_AS CONCERNING THE SONS OF LAADAN; THE SONS OF THE GERSHONITE LAADAN, CHIEF FATHERS, EVEN OF LAADAN THE GERSHONITE, WERE JEHIELI._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHEBUEL THE SON OF GERSHOM, THE SON OF MOSES, WAS RULER OF THE TREASURES._ Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses. It is impossible that the grandson of Moses could be a contemporary of David; "the son of Gershom" must mean his descendant. Those treasures were immense, consisting of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS BRETHREN BY ELIEZER; REHABIAH HIS SON, AND JESHAIAH HIS SON, AND JORAM HIS SON, AND ZICHRI HIS SON, AND SHELOMITH HIS SON._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 cl... [ Continue Reading ]