1 Chronicles 9:17
in 1 Chronicles 9These were the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief),
KJV
And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 9
Commentary
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Shallum was the chief
on 1 Chronicles 9:17-21
The porters introduced at 9:17, Shallum, Akkub, Talmon and Ahiman, guarded the king's gate eastward, the entrance David's own kings used to reach the temple, and the office is traced back to Phinehas son of Eleazar, ruler over the gatekeepers in time past, and the LORD was with him. The Korahites named at verse 19 carry a history the name alone recalls: Korah's own rebellion was judged at Num 16, but his sons did not die with him, and their descendants stand here still keeping the gate their ancestor once tried to seize by force. A trust rebellion could not overturn is inherited, one generation guarding what another once wanted to take.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the porters,.... Or keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren; Shallum was the chief; of these four porters, and their brethren.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And from here until the king’s gate to the east The meaning of עַד is: from here until a gate named the King’s Gate to the east.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִים֙ | vehashoarim | and the gatekeepers | H7778 → | 37 times |
| שַׁלּ֣וּם | shalum | Shallum | H7967 → | 27 times |
| וְעַקּ֔וּב | veakuv | and Akkub | H6126 → | |
| וְטַלְמֹ֖ן | vetalmon | and Talmon | H2929 → | |
| וַאֲחִימָ֑ן | vaachiman | and Ahiman | H289 → | |
| וַאֲחִיהֶ֥ם | vaachihem | and brother their | H251 → | 630 times |
| שַׁלּ֖וּם | shalum | Shallum | H7967 → | 27 times |
| הָרֹֽאשׁ׃ | harosh | [was] the chief | H7218 → | 599 times |
וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִים֙and the gatekeepers
vehashoarimH7778 →37 times
שַׁלּ֣וּםShallum
shalumH7967 →27 times
וְעַקּ֔וּבand Akkub
veakuvH6126 →
וְטַלְמֹ֖ןand Talmon
vetalmonH2929 →
וַאֲחִימָ֑ןand Ahiman
vaachimanH289 →
וַאֲחִיהֶ֥םand brother their
vaachihemH251 →630 times
שַׁלּ֖וּםShallum
shalumH7967 →27 times
הָרֹֽאשׁ׃[was] the chief
haroshH7218 →599 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
1 Chronicles 23:54,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise.”
it leads to
- Amos 6:5
You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
- Psalms 87:7
Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”
- 2 Chronicles 8:14
In keeping with the ordinances of his father David, Solomon appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, and the Levites for their duties to offer praise and to minister before the priests…
- 2 Chronicles 29:25–26
Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the command…
- 2 Chronicles 35:15
The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer. And the gatekeepers at each gate did not need to leave…
- Amos 6:5
Through
Nehemiah 11:19And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their associates, who kept watch at the gates—172 men.
it leads to
- 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.
- 1 Chronicles 9:17–22
These were the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives.
- Nehemiah 12:25
Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the gates.
- Psalms 84:10
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.