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Organized Temple Service
Commentators explain that this verse describes a highly organized system for temple service. The gatekeepers lived in surrounding villages and served in weekly rotations. A new group would arrive every seven days, likely on the Sabbath, to relieve the previous one, ensuring the temple was perpetually staffed.
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1 Chronicles
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Chronicles 9:25
18th Century
Theologian
See the marginal references. If the number of gatekeepers was 172, as stated in Nehemiah 11:19 (that is, 168 in addition to the four chief gatekeep…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Chronicles 9:25
19th Century
Bishop
And their brethren, which were in their villages. —The families of the Temple warders, like those of the singers, lived o…
John Gill
On 1 Chronicles 9:25
17th Century
Pastor
And their brethren, which were in their villages
Assigned them to dwell in:
were to come after se…
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Matthew Henry
On 1 Chronicles 9:1–44
17th Century
Minister
This chapter expresses that one end of recording all these genealogies was to direct the Jews, when they returned from captivity, with whom to unit…