1 Chronik 4:23

Lutherbibel

Sie waren Töpfer und wohnten unter Pflanzungen und Zäunen bei dem König zu seinem Geschäft und blieben daselbst.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und die alte Geschichte erzählt: Sie waren Töpfer und bewohnten Netaim und Gedera; bei dem König, in seinem Dienste, wohnten sie daselbst.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Chronicles 4:14, Psalms 81:6

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.