1 Chronicles 26 (KJV) - 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 porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
¹⁸Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies 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 gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the Lord, were keepers of the entry.
²⁰And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and the Lord was with him.
²¹And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
²²All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
²³So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the Lord, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
²⁴In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
²⁵And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.
²⁶For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
²⁷And they lodged round about the house of God, 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 degree, 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 porters.
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, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark. (1 Chron. 15:18,23‑24)

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2 Chron. 23:19• ¹⁹And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the Lord, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in. (2 Chron. 23:19)

Korhites.

Num. 26:9‑11• ⁹And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the Lord:
¹⁰And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
¹¹Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not. (Num. 26:9‑11)

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Psa. 44:1• ¹<<To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.>> We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. (Psa. 44:1)

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Psa. 49:1• ¹<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.>> Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye 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. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; 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.