Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 26:1-19
Observe, I. There were porters appointed to attend the temple, who guarded all the avenues that let to it, opened and shut all the outer gates and attended at them, not only for the state, but for service, to direct and instruct those who were going to worship in the courts of the sanctuary in the decorum they were to observe, to encourage those that were timorous, to send back the strangers and unclean, and to guard against thieves and others that were enemies to the house of God. In allusion to this office, ministers are said to have the keys to the kingdom of heaven committed to them (Mat 16:19), that they may admit, and exclude, according to the law of Christ.
II. Of several of those tha…
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Parbar--is, perhaps, the same as Parvar ("suburbs," Kg2 23:11), and if so, this gate might be so called as leading to the suburbs [CALMET].
Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 26:17
Eastward were six Levites - It is supposed that there were more guards set at this eastern gate, because it was more frequented than the others. At each of the other gates were only four; at this, six.
John Gill on 1 Chronicles 26:18
At Parbar westward,.... A gate at the western wall; the Jewish writers generally interpret it an outward place, but Dr. Lightfoot (c) thinks it is the same with Parvar, which signifies suburbs, 2 Kings 23:11, and which agrees with the description Josephus (d) gives of one of the western gates, that it led to the suburbs:
four at the causeway; by which was the gate Shallecheth, 1 Chronicles 26:16.
and two at Parbar; the gate before mentioned.
(c) Ib. (Prospect of the Temple, ch. 5.) sect. 2.((d) Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 15. c. 11. sect. 5.)
Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 26:18
As concerning the sons of Laadan,.... The same with Libni, see Ch1 23:7.
the sons of the Gershonite Laadan; so called, to distinguish him from another Laadan, as Kimchi thinks:
chief fathers, even of Laadan the Gershonite; that sprung from him: were Jehieli; and his sons next mentioned.
