1 Chronicles 4:23

Modern

These were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the service of the king.

Traditional

These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.

Literal

They were the potters and those who dwelt at Netaim and Gederah. They dwelt there with the king for his work.

Latin

Hi sunt figuli habitantes in plantationibus et in sepibus, apud regem in operibus ejus: commoratique sunt ibi.

Hebrew

English

These were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the service of the king.

After recording Judah’s descendants through his wife Tamar (1 Chronicles 2:4–4:20), the text lists the descendants of Shelah, Judah’s third son with Bathshua (see 1 Chronicles 2:3; Genesis 38:2, 5).

Theme notes and profiles

Psalm 81:6
“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
1 Chronicles 4:14
Meonothai was the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of those living in Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen.

Gederah: Town in Judah; home of Baal-hanan and Jozabad Netaim: A place associated with potters in Judah