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Selected Verse: 1 Chronicles 26:10 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
1Ch 26:10	Strong Concordance	Also Hosah [02621], of the children [01121] of Merari [04847], had sons [01121]; Simri [08113] the chief [07218], (for though he was not the firstborn [01060], yet his father [01] made [07760] him the chief [07218];)
	King James	Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Simri the chief . . . though . . . not the first-born--probably because the family entitled to the right of primogeniture had died out, or because there were none of the existing families which could claim that right.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

Simri the chief . . . though . . . not the first-born--probably because the family entitled to the right of primogeniture had died out, or because there were none of the existing families which could claim that right.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
The Merarites. Hosah's sons and brothers. חוסה has been already mentioned (Ch1 16:38) along with Obed-edom as doorkeeper. Hosah made Shimri head of the Merarites, who served as doorkeepers, because there was no first-born, i.e., because his first-born son had died without leaving any descendant, so that none of the families descended from Hosah had the natural claim to the birthright. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen. Meshelemiah had eighteen (cf. Ch1 26:9), and Obed-edom sixty-two (Ch1 26:8); and all taken together they make ninety-three, whom we are (according to Ch1 26:12.) to regard as the heads of the 4000 doorkeepers. In Ch1 9:22 the number of the doorkeepers appointed by David is stated to be 212, but that number most probably refers to a different time (see on Ch1 9:22). Bertheau further remarks: "According to Ch1 16:38, sixty-eight are reckoned to Obed-edom and Hosah, in our passage seventy-five; and the small difference between the numbers is explained by the fact that in the first passage only the doorkeepers before the ark are referred to." Against this we have already shown, in our remarks on Ch1 16:38, that the number there mentioned cannot be held with certainty to refer to the doorkeepers.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

The Merarites. Hosah's sons and brothers. חוסה has been already mentioned (Ch1 16:38) along with Obed-edom as doorkeeper. Hosah made Shimri head of the Merarites, who served as doorkeepers, because there was no first-born, i.e., because his first-born son had died without leaving any descendant, so that none of the families descended from Hosah had the natural claim to the birthright. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen. Meshelemiah had eighteen (cf. Ch1 26:9), and Obed-edom sixty-two (Ch1 26:8); and all taken together they make ninety-three, whom we are (according to Ch1 26:12.) to regard as the heads of the 4000 doorkeepers. In Ch1 9:22 the number of the doorkeepers appointed by David is stated to be 212, but that number most probably refers to a different time (see on Ch1 9:22). Bertheau further remarks: "According to Ch1 16:38, sixty-eight are reckoned to Obed-edom and Hosah, in our passage seventy-five; and the small difference between the numbers is explained by the fact that in the first passage only the doorkeepers before the ark are referred to." Against this we have already shown, in our remarks on Ch1 16:38, that the number there mentioned cannot be held with certainty to refer to the doorkeepers.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Made him the chief - Not in inheriting the estate; (this was forbidden by the law) but in this service, for which he was better qualified than his elder brother.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Made him the chief - Not in inheriting the estate; (this was forbidden by the law) but in this service, for which he was better qualified than his elder brother.

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