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Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 26:4
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C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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Obed-edom's family. Obed-edom has been already mentioned in Ch1 16:38 and Ch1 15:24 as doorkeeper; see the commentary on the passage. From our passage we learn that Obed-edom belonged to the Kohathite family of the Korahites. According to Ch1 26:19, the doorkeepers were Korahites and Merarites. The Merarites, however, are only treated of from Ch1 26:10 and onwards. אדם וּלעבד ( Ch1 26:4) corresponds to ולמשׁלמיהוּ ( Ch1 26:2), and is consequently thereby brought under לקּרהים ( Ch1 26:1). Here, Ch1 26:4, Ch1 26:5, eight sons with whom God had blessed him (cf. Ch1 13:14), and in Ch1 26:6 and Ch1 26:7 his grandchildren, are enumerated. The verb נולד is used in the singular, with a subject following in the plural, as frequently (cf. Ew. 316, a). The grandchildren of Obed-edom by his first-born son Shemaiah are characterized as המּמשׁלים, the dominions, i.e., the lords (rulers) of the house of their fathers (ממשׁל, the abstract dominion, for the concrete משׁל; cf. Ew. 160, b), because they were חיל גּבּורי, valiant heroes, and so qualified for the office of doorkeepers. In the enumeration in Ch1 26:7, the omission of the ו cop. with אחיו אלזבד is strange; probably we must supply ו before both words, and take them thus: And Elzabad and his brethren, valiant men, (viz.) Elihu and Semachiah. For the conjecture that the names of the אחיו are not given (Berth.) is not a very probable one. 1 Chronicles 26:8
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