1 Chronicles 26 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

the divisions.There were four classes of these, each of which belonged to the four gates of the temple, which opened to the four cardinal points of heaven.

The eastern gate fell to Shelemiah; the northern to Zechariah, (ver. 14;) the southern to Obed-edom, (ver. 15;) and the western to Shuppim and Hosah, (ver. 16.)

These several persons were captains of these porter-bands, or door-keepers, at the different gates.

There were probably a thousand men under each of these captains; as we find, from ch. 23:5, that their whole number was four thousand.the porters.

1 Chron. 9:17‑27• ¹⁷And the doorkeepers: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren; Shallum was the chief.
¹⁸And they have been hitherto in the king's gate eastward: they were the doorkeepers in the camps of the children of Levi.
¹⁹And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, and their fathers, set over the camp of Jehovah, were keepers of the entrance.
²⁰And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them formerly; Jehovah was with him.
²¹Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was doorkeeper at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
²²All these chosen to be doorkeepers at the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were registered by genealogy according to their villages: David and Samuel the seer had instituted them in their trust.
²³And they and their sons were at the gates of the house of Jehovah, the house of the tent, to keep watch there.
²⁴At the four quarters were the doorkeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south.
²⁵And their brethren, in their villages, were to come after every seven days from time to time with them.
²⁶For in their trust these four were the chief doorkeepers: they were Levites; and they were over the chambers and over the treasuries of the house of God;
²⁷for they stayed round about the house of God during the night, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them. (1 Chron. 9:17‑27)

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1 Chron. 15:18,23‑24• ¹⁸and with them their brethren of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers;
²³And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
²⁴And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew with the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-Edom and Jehijah were doorkeepers for the ark. (1 Chron. 15:18,23‑24)

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2 Chron. 23:19• ¹⁹And he set the doorkeepers at the gates of the house of Jehovah, that no one unclean in anything should enter in. (2 Chron. 23:19)

Korhites.

Num. 26:9‑11• ⁹and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, summoned of the assembly, who contended against Moses and against Aaron in the band of Korah, when they contended against Jehovah.
¹⁰And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that band died, when the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty men; and they became a sign.
¹¹But the children of Korah died not. (Num. 26:9‑11)

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Psa. 44:1• ¹To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction. O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old: (Psa. 44:1)

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Psa. 49:1• ¹To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the world: (Psa. 49:1)

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Psa. 49• (Psa. 49)

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Meshelemiah.[Shelemyâhuw ,] Shelemiah, is merely an abbreviation of [Meshelemyâh ,] Meshelemiah, by the aphæresis of [Mêm,] {mem.}

1 Chron. 26:14• ¹⁴And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah; and they cast lots for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, and his lot came out northward; (1 Chron. 26:14)

Shelemiah.

Asaph.This variation arises from the rejection of the word [Ab ,] {av,} "father," and the mutation of [Yôwd,] {yood,} into ['Aleph,] {aleph;} being written in the parallel passages [Ebyâcâph ,] Ebiasaph, and here [Acâph ,] Asaph.

1 Chron. 6:37• ³⁷the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, (1 Chron. 6:37)

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Ebiasaph.

• In 1 Chron. 26:1-19 we find the courses of the doorkeepers. (“Doorkeepers, Overseers of the Treasures, and Judges: 1 Chronicles 26” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

The divisions of the doorkeepers. Of the Korahites: Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.