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1 Chronicles 26:18

In Parbar toward the west two at the going vp, and two in Pharbar.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Porters;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gates;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Walls;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Causeway;   Parbar;   Suburbs;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Parbar;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammiel;   Causey;   Chronicles, I;   Kohath, Kohathites;   Merari, Merarites;   Nethinim;   Parbar;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Causeway;   Parbar ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Levites;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Par'bar;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Causeway;   Merari;   Parbar;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Babylonia;   Police Laws;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As for the court on the west, there were four at the highway and two at the court.
Hebrew Names Version
For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
King James Version
At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
English Standard Version
And for the colonnade on the west there were four at the road and two at the colonnade.
New Century Version
There were two guards at the western court and four guards on the road to the court.
New English Translation
At the court on the west there were four posted on the road and two at the court.
Amplified Bible
At the colonnade on the west side [of the outer court of the temple] there were four at the road and two at the colonnade.
New American Standard Bible
At the annex on the west there were four at the highway and two at the annex.
World English Bible
For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
Geneva Bible (1587)
In Parbar towarde the West were foure by the paued streete, and two in Parbar.
Legacy Standard Bible
At the Parbar on the west there were four at the highway and two at the Parbar.
Berean Standard Bible
As for the court on the west, there were four at the highway and two at the court.
Contemporary English Version
four were stationed along the road leading to the west courtyard, and two guards stayed in the court itself.
Complete Jewish Bible
while for the courtyard to the west there were four at the highway and two at the courtyard itself.
Darby Translation
At the portico westward, four at the causeway, two at the portico.
Easy-to-Read Version
There were four guards at the western court and two guards on the road to the court.
George Lamsa Translation
At Parbar westward, four at the road and two at Parbar.
Good News Translation
Near the western pavilion there were four guards by the road and two at the pavilion itself.
Lexham English Bible
For the court to the west, four at the road, two at the court.
Literal Translation
At the Parbar, westward, four at the highway; two at the Parbar.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
By Parbar westwarde were there foure in in the strete, and two besyde Parbar.
American Standard Version
For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
Bible in Basic English
For the pillared way, on the west, four at the footway and two at the pillared way itself.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the Precinct westward, four at the causeway, and two at the Precinct.
King James Version (1611)
And Parbar Westward, foure at the causey, and two at Parbar.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
to relieve guard, also for Osa westward after the chamber-gate, three. There was a ward over against the ward of the ascent eastward, six men in a day, and four for the north, and four for the south, and at the Esephim two to relieve guard, and four by the west, and two to relieve guard at the pathway.
English Revised Version
For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And in the sellis, ethir `litle housis, of porteris at the west, weren foure in the weie, and tweyne bi the sellis.
Update Bible Version
For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
Webster's Bible Translation
At Parbar westward, four at the causey, [and] two at Parbar.
New King James Version
As for the Parbar [fn] on the west, there were four on the highway and two at the Parbar.
New Living Translation
Six were assigned each day to the west gate, four to the gateway leading up to the Temple, and two to the courtyard.
New Life Bible
There were four at the road. And there were two at the place between the west wall of the Lord's house and the wall of the open space.
New Revised Standard
and for the colonnade on the west there were four at the road and two at the colonnade.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For the precinct - westward, four, at the causeway, two - by the precinct.
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the cells also of the porters toward the west four in the way: and two at every cell.
Revised Standard Version
and for the parbar on the west there were four at the road and two at the parbar.
Young's Literal Translation
at Parbar, to the west, [are] four at the highway, two at Parbar.
THE MESSAGE
The Security Guards The teams of security guards were from the family of Korah: Meshelemiah son of Kore (one of the sons of Asaph). Meshelemiah's sons were Zechariah, the firstborn, followed by Jediael, Zebadiah, Jathniel, Elam, Jehohanan, and Eliehoenai—seven sons. Obed-Edom's sons were Shemaiah, the firstborn, followed by Jehozabad, Joah, Sacar, Nethanel, Ammiel, Issachar, and Peullethai—God blessed him with eight sons. His son Shemaiah had sons who provided outstanding leadership in the family: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad; his relatives Elihu and Semakiah were also exceptional. These all came from the line of Obed-Edom—all of them outstanding and strong. There were sixty-two of them. Meshelemiah had eighteen sons and relatives who were outstanding. The sons of Hosah the Merarite were Shimri (he was not the firstborn but his father made him first), then Hilkiah, followed by Tabaliah and Zechariah. Hosah accounted for thirteen. These teams of security guards, supervised by their leaders, kept order in The Temple of God , keeping up the traditions of their ancestors. They were all assigned to their posts by the same method regardless of the prominence of their families—each picked his gate assignment from a hat. Shelemiah was assigned to the East Gate; his son Zechariah, a shrewd counselor, got the North Gate. Obed-Edom got the South Gate; and his sons pulled duty at the storehouse. Shuppim and Hosah were posted to the West Gate and the Shalleketh Gate on the high road. The guards stood shoulder to shoulder: six Levites per day on the east, four per day on the north and on the south, and two at a time at the storehouse. At the open court to the west, four guards were posted on the road and two at the court.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
At the Parbar on the west there were four at the highway and two at the Parbar.

Contextual Overview

1 These are the deuisions of the porters. Among the Corethites, Meselemiahu, the sonne of Kore of the children of Asaph. 2 And the sonnes of Meselemiahu were these: Zachariahu the eldest, Iedihel the second, Zebadiahu the third, and Iahniel the fourth, 3 Elam the fifth, Iehohanan the sixt, and Eiloenai the seuenth. 4 The sonnes of Obed Edom, Semeia the eldest, Iehosabad the second, Ioah the third, Sacar the fourth, and Nathanael the fifth, 5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seuenth, Peulthai the eyght, for God blessed him. 6 And vnto Semeia, his sonne, were sonnes borne, that ruled in the house of their father: for they were men of might. 7 The sonnes of Semeia, Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, and his brethren were strong men, Elihu and Samachiahu. 8 All these were of the children of Obed Edom: they and their children, and their brethren, actiue men and of strength to do seruice, euen threescore and two of Obed Edom. 9 And Meselemiahu had sonnes and brethren, actiue men, eyghteene. 10 The sonnes of Hosa of the children of Merari, Simri the chiefe, & though he was not the eldest, yet his father set him in the chiefest place:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Parbar: i.e. the outside place; he annulled the corn; a quarter of Jerusalem (Strong) [Strong's H6503], 1 Chronicles 26:18, Also, 2 Kings 23:11, Parbar is most probably the same as parwar, which denotes suburbs - 2 Kings 23:11, in which sense it is often used in the Chaldee Targums; and consequently this may be considered as leading to the suburbs.

Cross-References

Genesis 21:31
Wherefore the place is called Beer seba, because that there they sware both of them.
Numbers 32:38
Nebo, Baalmeon, and turned their names, and Sibama also: and gaue other names vnto the cities which they builded.
Psalms 16:4
As for them that runne [after] another [God] they shall haue great trouble: I wyll not offer their drynke offerynges of blood, neither wyll I make mention of their names within my lyppes.
Hosea 2:17
For I wyll take away those names of Baal from her mouth, yea she shall neuer remember their names any more.
Zechariah 13:2
And then saith the Lorde of hoastes, I wyll destroy the names of the idols out of the lande: so that they shal no more be put in remembraunce: As for the false prophetes also, and the vncleane spirites, I wyl take them out of the lande.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“Parbar” must designate here the space between the western wall of the temple building and the wall of the court, which would be a sort of “precinct” or “purlieu” of the temple (2 Kings 23:11 note). Here were two gates, at one of which two guards were stationed; while at the Shallecheth, which gave upon the causeway, there were four. In this whole account, the temple is spoken of as if it were existing, when it was not as yet built. We must suppose that David formed the whole plan of the temple, and fixed the stations and numbers of the porters, though it was left for Solomon to carry out his instructions.


 
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