I Chronicles 26:24 Related Passages

You find that when David came and found him serving foreign worship, he asked him: You are the grandson of that righteous man and you worship idols? He^100aItalics show that Jonathan is the speaker. said to him, I have a tradition from my grandfather, sell yourself to foreign worship rather than need other people. He said to him; Heaven forbid! He did not say so, but rather sell yourself to work that is strange to you rather than need other people. When David saw that he loved money, he made him Count^100bLatin comes“associate, partner”, a Byzantine title for a high-level bureaucrat. The combination תֵּיסַווְרִין עַל־הָאוֹצָרוֹת is a Greek-Hebrew double expression. of the Temple treasuries. That is what is written, Shabuel ben Gershom ben Moshe, overseer of the treasuries. “Shabuel” because he returned to God with all his might; “overseer of the treasuries” that he made him Count of the treasuries.