Chronicles I 26:16

16 for the second to Osa westward, after the gate of the chamber by the ascent, watch against watch.

Chronicles I 26:16 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 26:16

To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward
Of Shuppim no mention is before made; of Hosah, see ( 1 Chronicles 26:10 1 Chronicles 26:11 ) their lot was to be placed at the gates on the western wall, where were four; the two more southward being assigned to the sons of Obededom, whose lot also was southward, are taken notice of under the division in the preceding verse; Parbar was another, ( 1 Chronicles 26:18 ) , and another follows here:

with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up;
this gate was in later times called Coponius, from the name of a Roman commander, in the times of Herod, who might give it this name on his account; it might have the name of Shallecheth either from "sending out", or carrying out the filth of the temple through it; or rather from "casting up the causeway", as here expressed, which was the going up, or ascent, Solomon made, by which he went up to the temple, ( 1 Kings 20:5 ) and which agrees with the description Josephus ^F1 gives of one of the gates on the western wall, that it led to the royal palace, the valley between being filled up for the passage; on each side of which causeway, it is said, grew oaks and teil trees, see ( Isaiah 6:13 ) which served both to keep up the causeway, and to make a fine, pleasant, shady walk for the king to pass through to the temple; all which are observed by Dr. Lightfoot ^F2:

ward against ward;
for as the gates answered one another, so the wards or watches at them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Antiqu. l. 15. c. 11. sect. 5.
F2 Ut supra, (Prospect of the Temple), c. 5. sect. 1.

Chronicles I 26:16 In-Context

14 And the lot of the east gates fell to Selemias, and Zacharias: the sons of Soaz cast lots for Melchias, and the lot came out northward.

15 To Abdedom the south, opposite the house of Esephim.

16 for the second to Osa westward, after the gate of the chamber by the ascent, watch against watch.

17 Eastward six in the day; northward four by the day; southward four by the day; and two at the Esephim,

18 to relieve guard, also for Osa westward after the chamber-gate, three. a ward over against the ward of the ascent eastward, six in a day, and four for the north, and four for the south, and at the Esephim two to relieve guard, and four by the west, and two to relieve guard at the pathway.