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1 Chronicles 26:10

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the first-born, yet his father made him chief),

KJV

Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 26

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
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.

This site's exposition

strong men, eighteen

on 1 Chronicles 26:9-11

Meshelemiah's house counts eighteen strong men, a smaller family than Obed-edom's, and each is still named as an office holder rather than a bare number. Hosah of the Merarites is made chief over his own house though he was not the firstborn, his father's own choice standing where the law reserved the double portion for birth order, because the gatekeeper's post asked for fitness, not inheritance. Chronicles marks the exception because it wants qualification, not lineage alone, deciding who stands at the doors.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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,

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וּלְחֹסָ֥הand [belonged] to Hosah

    ulechosahH2621 →5 times

  • מִן־one of

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • מְרָרִ֖יMerari

    merariH4847 →36 times

  • בָּנִ֑יםsons

    banimH1121 →4930 times

  • שִׁמְרִ֤יShimri

    shimriH8113 →4 times

  • הָרֹאשׁ֙the chief

    haroshH7218 →599 times

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • הָיָ֣הhe was

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • בְכ֔וֹרfirstborn

    vekhorH1060 →122 times

  • וַיְשִׂימֵ֥הוּand he had appointed him

    vaysimehuH7760 →584 times

  • אָבִ֖יהוּfather his

    ʾavihuH1 →1212 times

  • לְרֹֽאשׁ׃to chief

    leroshH7218 →599 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

3 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

    1 Chronicles 16:38

    along with Obed-edom and his sixty-eight relatives. Obed-edom son of Jeduthun, and also Hosah, were to be gatekeepers.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 13:14

      Thus the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house for three months, and the LORD blessed his household and everything he owned.

    • 1 Chronicles 25:3

      From the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah—six in all—under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the harp, giving thanks and praise to the LORD.

    • 1 Chronicles 26:4–8

      And Obed-edom also had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,

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 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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