1 Chronicles 26:10

10 de Hosa autem id est de filiis Merari Semri princeps non enim habuerat primogenitum et idcirco posuerat eum pater eius in principem

1 Chronicles 26:10 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 26:10

Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons
Who was a fellow porter of Obededom's at the ark, ( 1 Chronicles 16:38 ) .

Simri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father
made him the chief);
the firstborn being unfit for service, either through want of an intellectual capacity, or of strength of body, or through some defect or another; according to the Syriac version, he was dead; so some understand the words, he, the father, had no firstborn remaining or living.

1 Chronicles 26:10 In-Context

8 omnes hii de filiis Obededom ipsi et filii et fratres eorum fortissimi ad ministrandum sexaginta duo de Obededom

9 porro Mesellamiae filii et fratres robustissimi decem et octo

10 de Hosa autem id est de filiis Merari Semri princeps non enim habuerat primogenitum et idcirco posuerat eum pater eius in principem

11 Helchias secundus Tabelias tertius Zaccharias quartus omnes hii filii et fratres Hosa tredecim

12 hii divisi sunt in ianitores ut semper principes custodiarum sicut et fratres eorum ministrarent in domo Domini