1-Chronicles - 16:38

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38 and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Chronicles 16:38.

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And Obededom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
and Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
And Obededom, with his brethren sixty-eight: and Obededom the son of Idithun, and Hosa he appointed to be porters.
And Obed-edom with their brethren, sixty and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
both Obed-Edom and their brethren, sixty and eight, and Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun, and Hosah for gatekeepers,
And Obededom with their brothers, three score and eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
And Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, with their brothers, sixty-eight of them, to be door-keepers:
and Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jedithun and Hosah to be door-keepers;
Now Obededom and his brothers were sixty-eight. And he appointed Obededom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah to be porters.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The Levites, the brethren of Asaph and Obededom, these were left before the ark to minister there:
Obededom also the son of Jeduthun; or Ethan, which some take to be another Obededom; but the "vau" may be explanative, "even Obededom":
and Hosah to be porters; these he left to be doorkeepers of the ark.

Obed-edom with their brethren--Hosah, mentioned at the close of the verse, and a great number besides (see on 1-Chronicles 26:1).
to be porters--doorkeepers.

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