Brethren Brothers Duties Kinsmen Obliged Periods Places Relatives Seven Seven-day Share Villages
9:25 And their brethren, [which were] in their villages, [were] to come after {g} seven days from time to time with them.
(g) They served weekly, as in Ex 29:30.
9:25 To come - From their several villages to the place of worship. Seven days - Every seventh day the courses were changed, and the new comers were to tarry 'till the next sabbath day. With them - To be with them, with the chief porters, who alway's abode in the place of God's worship.
9:1-44 Genealogies. - This chapter expresses that one end of recording all these genealogies was, to direct the Jews, when they returned out of captivity, with whom to unite, and where to reside. Here is an account of the good state into which the affairs of religion were put, on the return from Babylon. Every one knew his charge. Work is likely to be done well when every one knows the duty of his place, and makes a business of it. God is the God of order. Thus was the temple a figure of the heavenly one, where they rest not day nor night from praising God, Re 4:8. Blessed be His name, believers there shall, not in turn, but all together, without interruption, praise him night and day: may the Lord make each of us fit for the inheritance of the saints in light.
Country Duties Kinsmen Obliged Periods Places Relatives Seven Seven-Day Share Time Villages
Country Duties Kinsmen Obliged Periods Places Relatives Seven Seven-Day Share Time Villages
