1 Chronicles 26:29
in 1 Chronicles 26From the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons had the outside duties as officers and judges over Israel.
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Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
KJV
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 26
Commentary
4 notes on this verseOutward business - Work done without the city; cutting of timber, hewing stones, ploughing the fields belonging to the sanctuary. - Jarchi.
This site's exposition
for the outward business over Israel
on 1 Chronicles 26:29-32
Chenaniah's Izharites and Hashabiah's Hebronites move outside the sanctuary altogether into civil office as judges and officers, one command on the west side of Jordan and another, under Jerijah, ranging east into Gilead where fighting men are found and enrolled in David's fortieth year. Chronicles sets these appointments beside the gatekeepers and treasurers because it does not separate sacred service from civil administration; both run through the same Levitical households under the same king. Nearly four thousand four hundred men across these two commands alone show how far David's ordering of the kingdom reached beyond the temple courts.
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The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לַיִּצְהָרִ֞י | laiyitzhari | to the Izharite[s] | H3325 → | 4 times |
| כְּנַנְיָ֣הוּ | kenanyahu | Kenaniah | H3663 → | 3 times |
| וּבָנָ֗יו | uvanav | and sons his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| לַמְּלָאכָ֤ה | lamelakhah | [were] for the work | H4399 → | 167 times |
| הַחִֽיצוֹנָה֙ | hachitzonah | <the> outside | H2435 → | |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | over | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| לְשֹׁטְרִ֖ים | leshoterim | to officials | H7860 → | 25 times |
| וּלְשֹׁפְטִֽים׃ | uleshofetim | and to judges | H8199 → | 202 times |
לַיִּצְהָרִ֞יto the Izharite[s]
laiyitzhariH3325 →4 times
כְּנַנְיָ֣הוּKenaniah
kenanyahuH3663 →3 times
וּבָנָ֗יוand sons his
uvanavH1121 →4930 times
לַמְּלָאכָ֤ה[were] for the work
lamelakhahH4399 →167 times
הַחִֽיצוֹנָה֙<the> outside
hachitzonahH2435 →
עַל־over
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
לְשֹׁטְרִ֖יםto officials
leshoterimH7860 →25 times
וּלְשֹׁפְטִֽים׃and to judges
uleshofetimH8199 →202 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
2 Chronicles 34:13were over the laborers and supervised all who did the work, task by task. Some of the Levites were secretaries, officers, and gatekeepers.
it leads to
- Nehemiah 4:10
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
- 2 Chronicles 2:18
Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
- Nehemiah 4:10
Through
1 Chronicles 23:4“Of these,” said David, “24,000 are to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, 6,000 are to be officers and judges,
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 19:8
Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites, priests, and heads of the Israelite families to judge on behalf of the LORD and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.
- Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
- 1 Chronicles 26:29–31
From the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons had the outside duties as officers and judges over Israel.
- Nehemiah 11:22
Now the overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica. He was one of Asaph’s descendants, who were the…
- 1 Chronicles 6:48
Their fellow Levites were assigned to every kind of service of the tabernacle, the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 19:8
Through
1 Chronicles 23:12The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel—four in all.
it leads to
- Exodus 6:18
The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.
- Exodus 6:18
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.