1 Chronicles 26:16

To Shuppim and Hosah Read, To Hosah. The word "Shuppim" (LXX. B, εἰς δεύτερον) seems to be an accidental repetition (in a corrupt form) of "Asuppim" (1 Chronicles 26:15), and so should be omitted from the text.

Hosah … going up R.V. Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth (mg. "casting forth"), at the causeway that goeth up. There is no other mention in the Bible of a gate "Shallecheth," but it is perhaps to be identified with "the entering in of the house of the Lord … which was in the precincts" ("Parvârim" Heb.) mentioned 2 Kings 23:11; cp. note on 1 Chronicles 26:18. "The causeway" led up to the Temple eitherfrom Ophel (on the S.) orfrom the Western City (across the Tyropœon Valley). Traces of two causeways have been discovered by excavation, viz., "Wilson's Arch" (Bädeker, p. 57) and "Robinson's Arch" (ib.p. 59). The second of these arches probably marks the site of a causeway belonging to the period of the Kings.