Shimri

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. Head of a family in the tribe of Simeon1 Chronicles 4:371 Chronicles 4:38
• 2. Father of one of David' s mighty men1 Chronicles 11:45
• 3. A Merarite (in A. V., called SIMRI)1 Chronicles 26:10
• 4. A Levite in the time of Hezekiah2 Chronicles 29:13

The passages, in Bible order (5)

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1. 1 Chronicles 4:37

   and Ziza son of Shiphi (son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah).

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 4:371 voice

   “The most remarkable person in this paragraph is Jabez. It is not said whose son he was, nor does it appear in what age he lived; but, it should seem, he was the founder of one of the families of Aharhel, mentioned

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2. 1 Chronicles 4:38

   These men listed by name were the leaders of their clans. Their families increased greatly,

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 4:382 voices

   “These mentioned by their names were princes in their families,.... The principal men of them, heads of their fathers' houses: and the house of their fathers increased greatly; by them, so that they were obliged to seek out for new habitations, as follows.

   “These mentioned by their names were princes - The registered chiefs of the cities in the first list 1Ch 4:28-31, in the time of Hezekiah 1Ch 4:41.

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3. 1 Chronicles 11:45

   Jediael son of Shimri and his brother Joha the Tizite,

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4. 1 Chronicles 26:10

   Hosah the Merarite also had sons: Shimri the first (although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him as the first),

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 26:102 voices

   “Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons,.... Who was a fellow porter of Obededom's at the ark, 1Ch 16:38. Simri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief); the firstborn being unfit for service, either through want of an intellectual capacity, or of strength of body, or through some defect or another; according to the Syriac version, he was dead; so some understand the words, he, the father, had no firstborn remaining or living.

   “He was made chief, perhaps not in inheriting the estate (for that was forbidden by the law, Deut. xxi. 16, 17 ), but in this service, which required personal qualifications. The porters, as the singers, had their post assigned them by lot, so many at such a gate, and so many at such a one, that every one might know his post and make it good,

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5. 2 Chronicles 29:13

   Shimri and Jeuel from the Elizaphanites; Zechariah and Mattaniah from the Asaphites;

   ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 29:132 voices

   This took eight days more. At the end of this period they repaired to the palace and announced that not only had the whole of the sacred edifice, within and without, undergone a thorough purification, but all the vessels which the late king had taken away and applied to a common use in his palace, had been restored, "and sanctified."

   “The expedition with which they did this work was very remarkable. They began on the first day of the first month, a happy beginning of the new-year, and one that promised a good year. Thus should every year begin with the reformation of what is amiss, and the purging away, by true repentance, of all the defilements contracted the foregoing year.

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