Chronicles I 4:23

23 These the potters who dwelt in Ataim and Gadira with the king: they grew strong in his kingdom, and dwelt there.

Chronicles I 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.

Chronicles I 4:23 In-Context

21 The sons of Selom the son of Juda; Er the father of Lechab, and Laada the father of Marisa, and the offspring of the family of Ephrathabac the house of Esoba.

22 And Joakim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joas, and Saraph, who dwelt in Moab, and he changed their names to Abederin and Athukiim.

23 These the potters who dwelt in Ataim and Gadira with the king: they grew strong in his kingdom, and dwelt there.

24 The sons of Semeon; Namuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zares, Saul:

25 Salem his son, Mabasam his son, Masma his son: