1 Chronicles 9:21
in 1 Chronicles 9Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was the gatekeeper at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tent of meeting.
KJV
And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 9
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
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 Awakening2 voices
Was - In the time of David, as the following verse sheweth. The door - Of the door which led out of the priests court into the tabernacle, in which the ark was placed. Before the temple was built, they had a mean and moveable tent, which they made use of in the mean time.
And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah,....
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, the Lord being with him [This means] that he prophesied in time past, and our Sages said that this is Phinehas the priest, and because he did not annul Jephthah’s vow, the Shechinah left him.
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| זְכַרְיָה֙ | zekharyah | Zechariah | H2148 → | 43 times |
| בֶּ֣ן | ben | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| מְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֔ה | meshelemyah | Meshelemiah | H4920 → | 4 times |
| שֹׁעֵ֥ר | shoer | [was] a gatekeeper of | H7778 → | 37 times |
| פֶּ֖תַח | petach | [the] entrance | H6607 → | |
| לְאֹ֥הֶל | leohel | of [the] tent of | H168 → | 345 times |
| מוֹעֵֽד׃ | moed | meeting | H4150 → | 223 times |
זְכַרְיָה֙Zechariah
zekharyahH2148 →43 times
בֶּ֣ן[the] son of
benH1121 →4930 times
מְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֔הMeshelemiah
meshelemyahH4920 →4 times
שֹׁעֵ֥ר[was] a gatekeeper of
shoerH7778 →37 times
פֶּ֖תַח[the] entrance
petachH6607 →
לְאֹ֥הֶלof [the] tent of
leohelH168 →345 times
מוֹעֵֽד׃meeting
moedH4150 →223 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.