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Legacy Standard Bible

1 Chronicles 4:23

These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hedges;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Pottery;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Shelah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gederah;   Netaim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Gederah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bottle;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pottery;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Gederah;   Hedge;   Netaim;   Ziph (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Artisans;   Palestine;   Pottery;   Rechabites;   Shelah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They were the potters and residents of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the service of the king.
Hebrew Names Version
These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work.
King James Version
These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
English Standard Version
These were the potters who were inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the king's service.
New Century Version
These sons of Shelah were potters. They lived in Netaim and Gederah and worked for the king.
New English Translation
They were the potters who lived in Netaim and Gederah; they lived there and worked for the king.
Amplified Bible
These were the potters and those who lived [among plantations and hedges] at Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work.
New American Standard Bible
These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work.
World English Bible
These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work.
Geneva Bible (1587)
These were potters, & dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his worke.
Berean Standard Bible
These were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the service of the king.
Contemporary English Version
The members of these clans were the potters who lived in the towns of Netaim and Gederah and worked for the king.
Complete Jewish Bible
These were potters and inhabitants of N'ta‘im and G'derah; they lived there, occupied with the king's work.
Darby Translation
These were the potters, and those that abode among plantations and enclosures: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
Easy-to-Read Version
These sons of Shelah were workers who made things from clay. They lived in Netaim and Gederah and worked for the king.
George Lamsa Translation
These are the sons of Shelah.
Good News Translation
They were potters in the service of the king and lived in the towns of Netaim and Gederah.
Lexham English Bible
These were the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there with the king in his service.
Literal Translation
These were the potters, and those who lived among plants and hedges. They lived there with the king for his work.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These were potmakers, and dwelt amoge plantes and hedges, besyde the kynge in his busynes, and came & dwelt there.
American Standard Version
These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
Bible in Basic English
These were the potters, and the people living among planted fields with walls round them; they were there to do the king's work.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
These were potters, and dwelt there among trees and hedges, nye vnto the king, because of his worke.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and hedges; there they dwelt occupied in the king's work.
King James Version (1611)
These were the Potters, and those that dwelt amongst plants and hedges. There they dwelt with the king for his worke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
These are the potters who dwelt in Ataim and Gadira with the king: they grew strong in his kingdom, and dwelt there.
English Revised Version
These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
These ben potteris dwellinge in plauntyngis, and in heggis, anentis kyngis in her werkis; and thei dwelliden there.
Update Bible Version
These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
Webster's Bible Translation
These [were] the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
New King James Version
These were the potters and those who dwell at Netaim [fn] and Gederah; [fn] there they dwelt with the king for his work.
New Living Translation
They were the pottery makers who lived in Netaim and Gederah. They lived there and worked for the king.
New Life Bible
These were the people who made pots and lived in Netaim and Gederah. They lived there with the king for his work.
New Revised Standard
These were the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king in his service.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They, were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim, and Gederah, - with the king in his work, dwelt they there.
Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the potters, and they dwelt in Plantations, and Hedges, with the king for his works, and they abode there.
Revised Standard Version
These were the potters and inhabitants of Neta'im and Gede'rah; they dwelt there with the king for his work.
Young's Literal Translation
They [are] the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gedera; with the king in his work they dwelt there.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work.

Contextual Overview

11Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. 12Eshton became the father of Beth-rapha and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah. 13Now the sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai. 14Meonothai became the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge-harashim, for they were craftsmen. 15The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh were Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah was Kenaz. 16The sons of Jehallelel were Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel. 17The sons of Ezrah were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. (And these are the sons of Bithia the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took) and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. 18His Jewish wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. 19The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. 20The sons of Shimon were Amnon and Rinnah, Benhanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Chronicles 4:14, Psalms 81:6

Cross-References

Exodus 20:13
"You shall not murder.
Leviticus 19:18
You shall not take vengeance, and you shall not keep your anger against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am Yahweh.
Numbers 23:18
Then he took up his discourse and said,"Arise, O Balak, and hear;Give ear to me, O son of Zippor!
Judges 9:7
Toe hulle dit aan Jotam meedeel, het hy op die top van die berg Gerísim gaan staan en sy stem verhef en uitgeroep en aan hulle gesę: Luister na my, burgers van Sigem, sodat God na julle kan luister.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Among plants and hedges - Rather, “in Netaim and Gederah” Joshua 15:36.

With the king - Or, probably, “on the king’s property.” Both David and several of the later kings had large territorial possessions in various parts of Judaea 1Ch 27:25, 1 Chronicles 27:31; 2 Chronicles 26:10; 2Ch 27:4; 2 Chronicles 32:28-29.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 4:23. These were the potters — "These are the disciples of the law, for whose sake the world was created; who preside in judgment, and establish the world; and they build and perfect the fallen down house of Israel: they dwelt there with the Shechinah of the King of the world, in the study of the law and the intercalation or months, and determining the commencement of years and festivals: and they computed the times from heaven in the days of Ruth, the mother of kingdoms, to the days of Solomon the king." - T. I am afraid this paraphrase gives us as little light as the text itself, which speaks of potters, and those who dwelt among plants and hedges. They were probably brickmakers; perhaps potters also, who had their dwelling in low grounds, and fabricated the clay into pots and bricks that was digged up in forming fences in the king's domains.


 
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