1Ch 26:16 | KD | STEP | The word לשׁפּים is unintelligible, and probably has come into the text merely by a repetition of the two last syllables of the preceding word, since the name שׁפּים ( ) has no connection with this passage. To Hosah fell the lot towards the west, by the door Shallecheth on the ascending highway. העולה המסלּה is the way which led from the lower city up to the more lofty temple site. Instead of the door on this highway, in , in the statement as to the distribution of the guard-stations, Parbar is named, and the highway distinguished from it, four doorkeepers being appointed for the מסלּה, and two for פּרבּר. פּרבּר .פּר, probably identical with פּרורים, 2Ki 23:11, a word of uncertain meaning, was the name of an out-building on the western side, the back of the outer court of the temple by the door Shallecheth, which contained cells for the laying up of temple goods and furniture. שׁלּכת, Böttcher translates, Proben , S. 347, “refuse-door;” see on 2Ki 23:11. Nothing more definite can be said of it, unless we hold, with Thenius on 2Ki 23:11, that Ezekiel’s temple is in all its details a copy of the Solomonic temple, and use it, in an unjustifiable way, as a source of information as to the prae-exilic temple. משׁמר לעמּת משׁמר (as in ), guard with (over against?) guard, or one guard as the other (cf. on לעמּת, and ), Bertheau connects with Hosah, according to the Masoretic punctuation, and explains it thus: “Because it was Hosah’s duty to set guards before the western gate of the temple, and also before the gate Shallecheth, which lay over against it.” Clericus, on the contrary, refers the words to all the guard-stations: cum ad omnes januas essent custodiae, sibi ex adverso respondebant . This reference, according to which the words belong to what follows, and introduce the statement as to the number of guards at the individual posts which follows in 1Ch 26:17., seems to deserve the preference. So much is certain in any case, that there is no ground in the text for distinguishing the gate Shallecheth from the western gate of the temple, for the two gates are not distinguished either in or in 1Ch 26:18.

‏ 1 Chronicles 26:16

The word לשׁפּים is unintelligible, and probably has come into the text merely by a repetition of the two last syllables of the preceding word, since the name שׁפּים (1Ch 7:12) has no connection with this passage. To Hosah fell the lot towards the west, by the door Shallecheth on the ascending highway. העולה המסלּה is the way which led from the lower city up to the more lofty temple site. Instead of the door on this highway, in 1Ch 26:18, in the statement as to the distribution of the guard-stations, Parbar is named, and the highway distinguished from it, four doorkeepers being appointed for the מסלּה, and two for פּרבּר. פּרבּר .פּר, probably identical with פּרורים, 2Ki 23:11, a word of uncertain meaning, was the name of an out-building on the western side, the back of the outer court of the temple by the door Shallecheth, which contained cells for the laying up of temple goods and furniture. שׁלּכת, Böttcher translates, Proben, S. 347, “refuse-door;” see on 2Ki 23:11. Nothing more definite can be said of it, unless we hold, with Thenius on 2Ki 23:11, that Ezekiel’s temple is in all its details a copy of the Solomonic temple, and use it, in an unjustifiable way, as a source of information as to the prae-exilic temple. משׁמר לעמּת משׁמר (as in Neh 12:24), guard with (over against?) guard, or one guard as the other (cf. on לעמּת, 1Ch 26:12 and 1Ch 25:8), Bertheau connects with Hosah, according to the Masoretic punctuation, and explains it thus: “Because it was Hosah’s duty to set guards before the western gate of the temple, and also before the gate Shallecheth, which lay over against it.” Clericus, on the contrary, refers the words to all the guard-stations: cum ad omnes januas essent custodiae, sibi ex adverso respondebant. This reference, according to which the words belong to what follows, and introduce the statement as to the number of guards at the individual posts which follows in 1Ch 26:17., seems to deserve the preference. So much is certain in any case, that there is no ground in the text for distinguishing the gate Shallecheth from the western gate of the temple, for the two gates are not distinguished either in 1Ch 26:16 or in 1Ch 26:18.