1 Cronache 26:16

16 Per il lato d’occidente, con la porta Shalleketh, sulla via che sale, la sorte designò Shuppim e Hosa: erano due posti di guardia, uno dirimpetto all’altro.

1 Cronache 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.

1 Cronache 26:16 In-Context

14 Per il lato d’oriente la sorte designò Scelemia. Si tirò poi a sorte per Zaccaria, suo figliuolo, ch’era un consigliere di senno; e la sorte designò lui per il lato di settentrione.

15 Per il lato di mezzogiorno, la sorte designò Obed-Edom; e per i magazzini designò i suoi figliuoli.

16 Per il lato d’occidente, con la porta Shalleketh, sulla via che sale, la sorte designò Shuppim e Hosa: erano due posti di guardia, uno dirimpetto all’altro.

17 A oriente v’erano sei Leviti; al settentrione, quattro per giorno; a mezzodì, quattro per giorno, e quattro ai magazzini, due per ogni ingresso;

18 al recinto del tempio, a occidente, ve n’erano addetti quattro per la strada, due per il recinto.