1Ch 26:4-7 | KD | STEP | Obed-edom’s family. Obed-edom has been already mentioned in and 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 , the doorkeepers were Korahites and Merarites. The Merarites, however, are only treated of from and onwards. אדם וּלעבד ( ) corresponds to ולמשׁלמיהוּ ( ), and is consequently thereby brought under לקּרהים ( ). Here, , , eight sons with whom God had blessed him (cf. ), and in and 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 , 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 26:4-7

Obed-edom’s family. Obed-edom has been already mentioned in 1Ch 16:38 and 1Ch 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 1Ch 26:19, the doorkeepers were Korahites and Merarites. The Merarites, however, are only treated of from 1Ch 26:10 and onwards. אדם וּלעבד (1Ch 26:4) corresponds to ולמשׁלמיהוּ (1Ch 26:2), and is consequently thereby brought under לקּרהים (1Ch 26:1). Here, 1Ch 26:4, 1Ch 26:5, eight sons with whom God had blessed him (cf. 1Ch 13:14), and in 1Ch 26:6 and 1Ch 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 1Ch 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.