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1 Chronicles 26:1

1 Chronicles 26:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

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 (); the southern to Obed-edom (); and the western to Shuppim and Hosah (). 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 , that their whole number was four thousand.

the porters: , , ;

Korhites: ; , *titles

Meshelemiah: ωΡμξιδ: strong:H8018, Shelemiah:, is merely an abbreviation of ξωΡμξιδ: strong:H4920, Meshelemiah:, by the apheresis of ξ:, mem:. , Shelemiah

Asaph: This variation arises from the rejection of the word ΰα: strong:H1, av:, "father," and the mutation of ι:, yood:, into ΰ:, aleph:; being written in the parallel passages ΰαιρσ: strong:H43, Ebiasaph:, and here ΰρσ: strong:H623, Asaph:. , , Ebiasaph

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