Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
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Gill's Exposition
These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak,.... Who was high priest in Babylon, and whose grandson was now high priest in the time referred to:
and in the days of…
Barnes' Notes
In 1Ch 9:17, 1Ch 9:24, 1Ch 9:26, four families of porters only are mentioned; six are implied here, in Neh 7:45, and in Ezr 2:42. From 1Ch 26:14-19 it appears that the temple had four chief gates,…
Adam Clarke
The thresholds of the gates - Some understand this of a sort of porticoes at the gates, and are puzzled about it, because they find no mention of porticoes elsewhere: but why may we not suppose these…
We have here the names, and little more than the names, of a great many priests and Levites, that were eminent in their day among the returned Jews. Why this register should be here inserted by…
Cambridge Bible
Mattaniah Cf. Neh 12:8; Neh 11:17. Mattaniah representing Asaphites.
Bakbukiah Cf. Neh 12:9; Neh 11:17, representing the Hemanites, cf. 1Ch 25:4.
Obadiah Probably the same as Abda of the family of…
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