What Does 1 Chronicles 26:15 Mean?
To Obededom southward, and to his sons the house of the gatherings.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.THE KEY
Asuppim carries the sense of gathered things, turning this gate into the threshold of a place where what is collected has a home and keepers.
THE MEANING
A place of gathering is never just a pile: what has been brought together has a house and appointed care. The post belongs to the sons of Obed-edom, “servant of Edom”, so service is written into the keeper’s name. Gathering and keeping are part of one ordered movement.
THE ROOT
הָאֲסֻפִּים
ha’asuppim
GROWS FROM
אסף
Gather, collect, take in.
“the gatherings” in this verse is ha’asuppim. The name Asuppim comes from the root for gathering, so the English proper name preserves a hidden image: a house for what has been brought together. The verse links gathering with a place and people entrusted to its care.
ALSO GROWS
asaph: Gather or collect.
אָסַף
The same root names the action behind Asuppim: what comes together is given a place.
asuppah: A gathering, collection, or assembly.
אֲסֻפָּה
This related form makes the place-name’s gathering sense audible beneath the English transliteration.
עֹבֵד־אֱדוֹם
ʿOved-ʾEdom
GROWS FROM
עבד
Work or serve.
“Obed-edom” in this verse is ʿOved-ʾEdom. Obed means “servant” or “one who serves,” so the name itself carries the language of service. In this verse, that name stands beside a household assigned to the care of the gathered place.
ALSO GROWS
ʿavad: Work or serve.
עָבַד
The verb shows the action held within Obed’s name.
ʿeved: Servant.
עֶבֶד
This noun makes the service in the name explicit and echoes the household’s assigned keeping.
THE PATTERN
What is gathered or received is entrusted to a place and people responsible for its care.
For these Levites, the four heads of the gatekeepers, were in trust, and were over the chambers and storehouses of the house of God.For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the lifted offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the chambers, where are the vessels of the set-apart place, and the priests who serve, and the gatekeepers, and the singers; and we will not let go of the house of our God.As each has received a gift, serve it to one another as good stewards of the many-colored favor of God.THE THREAD
Gather to me my faithful ones, those who cut my covenant over the slaughtered offering.“Gather” translates אָסַף (asaph), the same root carried in Asuppim. The verse here names a house for gathered things; the Psalm uses that root for people gathered to God.
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