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1 Chronicles 15:23

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Berechiah and Elkanah were to be guardians of the ark.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

KJV

And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 15

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And Berechiah, and Elkanah, were doorkeepers for the ark,.... Either while it was at Kirjathjearim, and at Obededom's house; or rather after it was put in the tabernacle David had prepared for it; though it may be best of all to understand it, that those, as it was carrying, went before it, to keep the people from pressing to it, and gazing on it.

This site's exposition

And Berechiah and Elkanah

on 1 Chronicles 15:23-24

Two pairs of doorkeepers guard the ark on its return: Berechiah and Elkanah here, and Obed-edom and Jehiah added in the next verse, alongside seven priests who sound trumpets before the ark. This Obed-edom is the same man in whose house the ark rested three months and whose household the LORD blessed for it, and here he moves from host to escort. The trumpets belong specifically to the priests, the instrument Numbers 10 assigns them for moving the camp and the ark, kept distinct from the Levites' harps and cymbals appointed earlier in the chapter.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the L ORD , that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams. 27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint . . . the singers with instruments--These eminent Levites were instructed to train the musicians and singers who were under them, for the solemn procession. The performers were ranged in three choirs or bands, and the names of the principal leaders are given (1Ch 15:17, 18, 21), with the instruments respectively used by each.

The words behind it

4 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וּבֶֽרֶכְיָה֙and Berekiah

    uverekhyahH1296 →11 times

  • וְאֶלְקָנָ֔הand Elkanah

    veelkanahH511 →21 times

  • שֹׁעֲרִ֖ים[were] gatekeepers

    shoarimH7778 →37 times

  • לָאָרֽוֹן׃for the ark

    laaronH727 →202 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Kings 22:4“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.2 works2 Kings 25:18The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.2 works1 Chronicles 9:21–23Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was the gatekeeper at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.2 worksPsalms 84:10For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.2 works1 Chronicles 15:24Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer—the priests—were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were also to be guardians of the ark.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 84:10

    For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 27:4

      One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the…

    • Psalms 26:8–10

      O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

    • Psalms 63:2

      So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

    • Philippians 3:20

      But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

    • Romans 8:5–6

      Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

  • Through

    2 Kings 22:4

    “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 12:4

      Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house…

  • Through

    2 Kings 25:18

    The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.

    it leads to

    • Ezra 7:1

      Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

    • Jeremiah 21:1

      This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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