Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Chronicles 4:23
These [were] the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: (g) there they dwelt with the king for his work.
(g) They were David's gardeners and served him in his works.
These [were] the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: (g) there they dwelt with the king for his work.
(g) They were David's gardeners and served him in his works.
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:23. _THESE_ WERE _THE POTTERS_] "These are the disciples of the law, for whose sake the world was created; who preside in judgment, and establish the world; and they build and pe...
AMONG PLANTS AND HEDGES - Rather, “in Netaim and Gederah” Joshua 15:36. WITH THE KING - Or, probably, “on the king’s property.” Both David and several of the later kings had large territorial possessi...
CHAPTER 4:1-23 ADDITIONAL GENEALOGIES OF JUDAH _ 1. The sons of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:1)_ 2. Jabez more honorable (1 Chronicles 4:9) 3. Further descendants of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:1
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, o...
THOSE THAT DWELT, &C. The inhabitants of Netaim and Gedera....
_those that dwelt amongst plants and hedges_ R.V. THE INHABITANTS OF NETAIM AND GEDERAH. _there they dwelt with the king for his work_ In the days of the kingdom the inhabitants of these villages were...
THOSE THAT DWELT AMONG PLANTS AND HEDGES— _Amongst the plantations, and at Gaderah._ Houbigant. See the LXX. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Among the numerous descendants of Judah, in the line of Pharez, Jabez is...
LESSON TWO 4-6 I. GENEALOGIES FROM ADAM TO DAVID (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 9:44) 3. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH (1 Chronicles 2:1-55,...
_THESE WERE THE POTTERS, AND THOSE THAT DWELT AMONG PLANTS AND HEDGES: THERE THEY DWELT WITH THE KING FOR HIS WORK._ AND THOSE THAT DWELT AMONG PLANTS AND HEDGES, х_ WªYOSHªBEEY_ (H3427) _ NªTAA`IYM_...
GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) This chapter enumerates further descendants of Judah, and the descendants of Simeon....
AND THOSE.. HEDGES] RV 'and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah.' DWELT WITH THE KING] i.e. on the royal estate as workmen....
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 4 Other families of Judah –...
II. — SONS OF SHELAH, THIRD SON OF JUDAH, 1 Chronicles 4:21 (omitted by Syriac version). The Shelanite clans were not noticed in 1 Chronicles 2 (See Genesis 38:5 and...
THESE WERE THE POTTERS. — Viz., the clans enumerated in 1 Chronicles 4:22. AND THOSE THAT DWELT AMONG PLANTS AND HEDGES. — Rather, _and inhabitants of Net aim and Gederah._ Netaim means “plantations”...
הֵ֚מָּה הַ יֹּ֣וצְרִ֔ים וְ יֹשְׁבֵ֥י נְטָעִ֖ים...
NAMES 1 Chronicles 1:1; 1 Chronicles 2:1; 1 Chronicles 3:1; 1 Chronicles 4:1;...
Here another line from Judah is traced, and must be viewed in the light of the royalty manifest in David. It is the story of the multiplication and settlement of the people who became workers in the g...
Potters. Hebrew yotserim, may also designate some family, as it seems improbable that the princes, in Moab, should be reduced to so mean a condition. But we have many examples of such a fall; (Haydock...
Very honourable testimony is here given to the descendants of Judah, who excelled in different handicrafts and mechanical arts....
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 3, 4, AND 5. The genealogy of David's family is next given us, as far as several generations after the return from the captivity; and then that of the tribes...
THESE WERE THE POTTERS,.... Or are the potters; the posterity of those men, who were so famous in their day, are now of mean employments: some of them made earthen pots; and some of them DWELT AMONG...
These [were] the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. Ver. 23. _Those that dwelt among plants and hedges._] Hedge rogues, Mr Dyke _a_ ca...
_Who had the dominion in Moab_ Which they ruled in the name and for the use of the kings of Judah, to whom Moab was subject from David's time. _Ancient things_ The sense is, those blessed times are lo...
1.11 The posteritie of Iudah by Caleb the sonne of Hur. 5 Of Ashur the posthumus son of Hezron. [THE GENEALOGIE OF IUDAH.] 9 Of Iabez, and his prayer. 21 The posteritie of Shelah. 24 The posterit...
These were the potters, the reference being to all the children and descendants of Shelah, AND THOSE THAT DWELL AMONG PLANTS AND HEDGES, probably the gardeners of the royal gardens near Jerusalem and...
THE POSTERITY OF JUDAH...
THESE WERE THE POTTERS; or rather, these are; for he seems to oppose their present servitude to their former glory and to show their low and mean spirits, that had rather tarry among the heathen to do...
1 Chronicles 4:23 potters H3335 (H8802) dwell H3427 (H8802) Netaim H5196 Gederah H1448 dwelt H3427 (H8804)
1 Chronicles 4:23 I. Notice how work links men to kings. Here we have potters, gardeners, and hedgers mixed up with the king. The men and women who work, whether with brain or hand, or both, are the p...
CONTENTS: Posterity of Judah and Simeon. CHARACTERS: God, Jabez, Caleb. CONCLUSION: If we set ourselves to acknowledge God in all our ways we put ourselves under the divine blessing and protection a...
1 Chronicles 4:9. _Jabez,_ dolour, grief, anguish. He was honourable; the same with Othniel, according to the Targumists. 1 Chronicles 4:22. _Jokim, &c._ These four probably resided in Moab, about the...
_There they dwelt with the king for his work._ WITH THE KING FOR HIS WORK (A motto for Sunday school teachers.) Work done well, however common, is accounted worthy of its wage, but work done for roya...
_The sons of Judah._ SURVEY OF THE GENEALOGY I. How great the obscurity of most men! II. What folly to seek place and power only here! III. How needful to secure renown hereafter! “Rejoice that yo...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 4:1 Information about other CLANS rounds off the genealogy of Judah. Verses 1 Chronicles 4:1 supply additional detail
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 4:21 LINEN WORKERS... POTTERS. These records from before the exile to Babylon (vv. 1 Chronicles 4:22) indicate
CRITICAL NOTES.] Obscurity often arising from brevity conspicuous in this passage. Yet we discern an order in it, indicated in first verse. It contains descendants of Shobal, Hur, Carmi, Hezron, and o...
EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 4:1 After the large space given to the "sons of David," of the tribe of Judah, in the previous chapter, this chapter returns for twenty-three verses to group together a few ad...
In chapter four, we follow another line from Caleb through one of his sons called Er. And you get a different line of Caleb from that which was earlier given. Now in this particular line in verse nine...
1 Chronicles 4:14; Psalms 81:6...
There are — He seems to oppose their present servitude to their former glory, and to shew their mean spirits that had rather tarry among the Heathen to do their drudgery, than return to Jerusalem to s...