1 Chronicles 9 Footnotes

9:26 In the ancient Near East, most ordinary economic transactions were by barter, with standard weights of goods equivalent to other goods. What money or precious metal existed was usually entrusted to places of worship; these places of worship functioned something like a bank. The temple in Jerusalem was the national repository of wealth apart from that of the king. The role of a gatekeeper included providing security for the treasuries.

9:35 Beginning with this verse, the Chronicler rehearsed Saul’s lineage. In some ways, the rest of the book of Chronicles is simply an extension or continuation of the genealogies of the first nine chapters, but with ever more extensive notes about the individuals in the lineage.