Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 26:10
Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for [though] he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)
10. Hosah ] He is mentioned as a doorkeeper along with Obed-edom in 1Ch 16:38.
Simri ] R.V. Shimri.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Taking away the birthright from the first-born, either absolutely for some gross miscarriage, as Gen 49:4; or only in this respect, because he wanted either strength or valour, or some other qualification necessary for his office.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
10. Simri the chief . . . though . .. not the first-bornprobably because the family entitled tothe right of primogeniture had died out, or because there were noneof the existing families which could claim that right.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons,…. Who was a fellow porter of Obededom’s at the ark, 1Ch 16:38.
Simri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief); the firstborn being unfit for service, either through want of an intellectual capacity, or of strength of body, or through some defect or another; according to the Syriac version, he was dead; so some understand the words, he, the father, had no firstborn remaining or living.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The Merarites. Hosah’s sons and brothers. has been already mentioned (1Ch 16:38) along with Obed-edom as doorkeeper. Hosah made Shimri head of the Merarites, who served as doorkeepers, because there was no first-born, i.e., because his first-born son had died without leaving any descendant, so that none of the families descended from Hosah had the natural claim to the birthright. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen. Meshelemiah had eighteen (cf. 1Ch 26:9), and Obed-edom sixty-two (1Ch 26:8); and all taken together they make ninety-three, whom we are (according to 1Ch 26:12.) to regard as the heads of the 4000 doorkeepers. In 1Ch 9:22 the number of the doorkeepers appointed by David is stated to be 212, but that number most probably refers to a different time (see on 1Ch 9:22). Bertheau further remarks: “According to 1Ch 16:38, sixty-eight are reckoned to Obed-edom and Hosah, in our passage seventy-five; and the small difference between the numbers is explained by the fact that in the first passage only the doorkeepers before the ark are referred to.” Against this we have already shown, in our remarks on 1Ch 16:38, that the number there mentioned cannot be held with certainty to refer to the doorkeepers.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(10) Also Hosah, of the children of Merari.Four chiefs of the sons of Hosah are named, and thirteen assigned as the total number of families belonging to this clan (1Ch. 26:10-11). Adding them to the 18 of Meshelemiah and the 62 of Obed-edom, we get a total of 93 principal porters, presiding over the 4,000 Levites appointed to that work (1Ch. 23:5).
Simri (Shimri) the chief (for though he was not his firstborn . . .).This may mean either that the oldest family had died out, or that none of these families could prove its seniority to the rest.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ch 26:10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for [though] he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)
Ver. 10. Yet his father made him the chief. ] Not in the right of first born, but in his office of a warder. a
a Jun.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
children = sons.
chief = head.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Hosah: 1Ch 16:38
his father: 1Ch 5:1, 1Ch 5:2
Reciprocal: Deu 21:16 – General 1Ch 26:16 – Hosah Neh 12:35 – Zechariah
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 26:10. His father made him the chief Not in inheriting the estate, (this was forbidden by the law,) but in this service, for which he was better qualified than his elder brother.