Chronicles I 26:7

7 The sons of Samai; Othni, and Raphael, and Obed, and Elzabath, and Achiud, mighty men, Heliu, and Sabachia, and Isbacom.

Chronicles I 26:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 26:7

The sons of Shemaiah
The same before mentioned, the firstborn of Obededom: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, and Elzabad, whose brethren were strong
men; Elihu and Semachiah;
which may rather denote their valour and courage, as before, though strength of body was needful, particularly to open and shut the doors of the temple, which, Josephus ^F18 says, required the assistance of twenty men.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 Contr. Apion. l. 2. sect. 9.

Chronicles I 26:7 In-Context

5 Amiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Phelathi the eighth: for God blessed him.

6 And to Samaias his son were born the sons of his first-born, chiefs over the house of their father, for they were mighty.

7 The sons of Samai; Othni, and Raphael, and Obed, and Elzabath, and Achiud, mighty men, Heliu, and Sabachia, and Isbacom.

8 All of the sons of Abdedom, they and their sons and their brethren, doing mightily in service: in all sixty-two to Abdedom.

9 And Mosellemia eighteen sons and brethren, mighty men.