Teks -- 1 Chronicles 9:18 (NET)

9:18 he serves to this day at the King’s Gate on the east. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the descendants of Levi.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 1Ch 9:18 - King's gate

In the east - gate of the temple, which was so called, because the kings of Judah used to go to the temple through that gate. Under this gate he comprehends all the rest, which also were guarded by these porters.

Wesley: 1Ch 9:18 - Companies

Or, according to the courses. They kept the gates successively, according to that method into which the Levites were distributed, for the more convenient management of their several offices; among which this of the porters was one.

JFB: 1Ch 9:18 - the king's gate

The king had a gate from his palace into the temple (2Ki 16:18), which doubtless was kept constantly closed except for the monarch's use; and although there was no king in Israel on the return from the captivity, yet the old ceremonial was kept up, probably in the hope that the scepter would, ere long, be restored to the house of David. It is an honor by which Eastern kings are distinguished, to have a gate exclusively devoted to their own special use, and which is kept constantly closed, except when he goes out or returns (Eze 44:2). There being no king then in Israel, this gate would be always shut.

Clarke: 1Ch 9:18 - The king’ s gate

The king’ s gate - That by which the kings of Judah went to the temple; see on 2Ki 16:18 (note).

TSK: 1Ch 9:18 - Who hitherto waited // the king’ s // they

Who hitherto waited : The original is wead hennah , which Houbigant and Dr. Geddes consider as a proper name, and render, ""And Adanah was over the eastern gate, called the king’ s;""i.e., the gate by which the kings of Judah went to the temple. The list is here nearly the same with those found in Ezra and Nehemiah, and contains those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel, but the list in Nehemiah is more ample, probably because it contains those who came afterwards; the object of the sacred writer here being to give the names of those who came first (1Ch 9:2). These consisted of men belonging not only to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but to many of the other tribes of Israel, who took advantage of the proclamation of Cyrus to return to Jerusalem. Properly speaking, the divisions mentioned here constituted the whole of the Israelitish people, who were divided into priests, Levites, common Israelites, and Nethinims.

the king’ s : 1Ki 10:5; 2Ki 11:19; Eze 44:2, Eze 44:3, Eze 46:1, Eze 46:2; Act 3:11

they : 1Ch 26:12-19

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 1Ch 9:18 - In the king’ s gate eastward // In the companies

In the king’ s gate eastward ; in the east gate of the temple, which was so called, either because it was the chief and most magnificent of all the gates, or because the kings of Judah used to go to the temple through that gate, 2Ki 16:18 compare Eze 44:1,2 . Under this gate he comprehends all the rest, which also were guarded by these porters.

In the companies or, according to the companies, or orders, or courses, i.e. they kept the gates successively, according to that method into which themselves and the rest of their brethren the Levites were distributed, for the more convenient management of their several offices; among which this of the porters was one.

Haydock: 1Ch 9:18 - Time

Time. Hebrew, "and hitherto." This custom has been observed at the king's gate, who entered his tribune by the eastern gate of the temple, 4 Kings xvi. 18. So far the ancient records reach. Some would infer from this passage, that a guard was still kept at the king's gate, even though there was none sitting upon the throne after the captivity. (Calmet) ---

Protestants, ("who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward.) They were porters in the companies of the children of Levi." (Haydock) ---

These different bands attended by turns. (Menochius) ---

But the captains were on duty every day, ver. 25, and 26, and 34.

Gill: 1Ch 9:18 - Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward // they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi

Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward,.... At the gate through which the king went into the temple, and was at the east of it; and here these porters were placed in the same order after the captivity, and their return from it, as before:

they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi; or in the camp of Levi, which was placed around the tabernacle, as in the wilderness: the Septuagint version is, "these are the gates of the camp of the children of Levi"; at which these porters were placed.