1 Chroniques 4:23

23 C'étaient les potiers et les habitants des plantations et des parcs; ils demeuraient là près du roi et travaillaient pour lui.

1 Chroniques 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 Chroniques 4:23 In-Context

21 Fils de Schéla, fils de Juda: Er, père de Léca, Laeda, père de Maréscha, et les familles de la maison où l'on travaille le byssus, de la maison d'Aschbéa,
22 et Jokim, et les hommes de Cozéba, et Joas et Saraph, qui dominèrent sur Moab, et Jaschubi-Léchem. Ces choses sont anciennes.
23 C'étaient les potiers et les habitants des plantations et des parcs; ils demeuraient là près du roi et travaillaient pour lui.
24 Fils de Siméon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zérach, Saül.
25 Fils de Saül: Schallum. Mibsam, son fils; Mischma, son fils.
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