1 Chronicles 4:23

23 These were potters and inhabitants of N'ta'im and G'derah; they lived there, occupied with the king's work.

1 Chronicles 4:23 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 4:23

These were the potters
Or are the potters; the posterity of those men, who were so famous in their day, are now of mean employments: some of them made earthen pots; and some of them

dwelt among plants and hedges;
or were employed in planting gardens and orchards, and making fences for them; or, as others think, "dwelt in Netaim and Gadara", cities in the tribe of Judah:

there they dwelt with the king for his work;
to make pots, plant gardens, and set hedges for him; either for the king of Judah, or it may be for the king of Babylon, where they were carried captive, and now chose to remain, doing those servile works for the king, without the city, in the fields.

1 Chronicles 4:23 In-Context

21 The sons of Shelah the son of Y'hudah: 'Er the father of Lekha, La'adah the father of Mareshah and the clans of fine-linen-workers at Beit-Ashbea,
22 Yokim, the men of Kozeva, Saraf the ruler in Mo'av, and Yashuvi-Lechem (the records are ancient).
23 These were potters and inhabitants of N'ta'im and G'derah; they lived there, occupied with the king's work.
24 The sons of Shim'on: N'mu'el, Yamin, Yariv, Zerach and Sha'ul.
25 His son was Shalum, his son was Mivsam, and his son was Mishma.
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