1 Chronicles 26:19
in 1 Chronicles 26These were the divisions of the gatekeepers who were descendants of Korah and Merari.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
These were the courses of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.
KJV
These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 26
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThese are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari. For among those Levites which descended from Kore, a grandson of Kohath, and which sprung from Merar, a brother of Kohath, the porters only wore; see 1Ch 26:1.
This site's exposition
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on 1 Chronicles 26:12-19
The gatekeepers cast lots for their posts, “young and old alike”, as the singers of chapter 25 were assigned by lot. The four gates take the compass points: east to Shelemiah, north to Zechariah, south to Obed-edom, west to Shuppim and Hosah. Twenty-four men stand on watch at one time.
This site's exposition
the divisions of the gatekeepers
The gatekeepers came from two Levite lines, Korah and Merari, as John Gill notes. Albert Barnes counts 24 guards on duty at one time. He sets that against the 4,000 gatekeepers of 1 Chronicles 23:5 and suggests the 93 chief men served as officers over the rest.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The divisions of the porters - The account of the porters here given makes them only twenty-four in number at any one time; 1Ch 23:5 states that the duty was discharged by 4,000 persons. Perhaps of the 93 chief porters here spoken of 1Ch 26:8-9, 1Ch 26:11, 1Ch 26:24 were always on guard as officers, while of the remaining 3,907, a certain proportion were each day on duty as their subordinates.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Eastward were six Levites--because the gate there was the most frequented. There were four at the north gate; four at the south, at the storehouse which was adjoining the south, and which had two entrance gates, one leading in a southwesterly direction to the city, and the other direct west, two porters each.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֵ֗לֶּה | ʾeleh | these | H428 → | 746 times |
| מַחְלְקוֹת֙ | machlekot | [were] [the] divisions of | H4256 → | 42 times |
| הַשֹּׁ֣עֲרִ֔ים | hashoarim | the gatekeepers | H7778 → | 37 times |
| לִבְנֵ֥י | livnei | of [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| הַקָּרְחִ֖י | hakarechi | the Korahite[s] | H7145 → | 8 times |
| וְלִבְנֵ֥י | velivnei | and of [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| מְרָרִֽי׃ | merari | Merari | H4847 → | 36 times |
אֵ֗לֶּהthese
ʾelehH428 →746 times
מַחְלְקוֹת֙[were] [the] divisions of
machlekotH4256 →42 times
הַשֹּׁ֣עֲרִ֔יםthe gatekeepers
hashoarimH7778 →37 times
לִבְנֵ֥יof [the] descendants of
livneiH1121 →4930 times
הַקָּרְחִ֖יthe Korahite[s]
hakarechiH7145 →8 times
וְלִבְנֵ֥יand of [the] descendants of
velivneiH1121 →4930 times
מְרָרִֽי׃Merari
merariH4847 →36 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
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- Numbers 16:3
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).