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Selected Verse: 1 Chronicles 9:25 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Ch 9:25 |
King James |
And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| See the marginal references. If the number of warders was, as stated in Nehemiah (Neh 11:19) 172 (i. e. 168 besides the four chief warders), and the number employed at any one time was, as under David Ch1 26:17-18, twenty-four, then the turn of the courses to keep ward came every seven weeks. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| To come - From their several villages to the place of worship. Seven days - Every seventh day the courses were changed, and the new comers were to tarry 'till the next sabbath day. With them - To be with them, with the chief porters, who alway's abode in the place of God's worship. |
17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.
18 At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
19 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.