One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Hosah. Every Hosah in the Bible
person
Hosah
חֹסָה
Hosah was a Levite who served as a gatekeeper at the tabernacle during the reign of King David.
- verses
- 4
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 16:38
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 26:16
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Hosah?
Hosah was a Levite who served as a gatekeeper during the reign of King David. He is mentioned in the book of 1 Chronicles.
In 1Ch.16.38, Hosah is listed among the Levites appointed by David to minister before the Ark of the Covenant at the tabernacle in Jerusalem. He served alongside Obed-Edom and his sixty-eight associates.
Hosah is also mentioned in 1Chronicles 26, which provides more details about the organization of the gatekeepers. In verse 10, it is stated that Hosah, from the Merarite clan, had sons who were also gatekeepers. His firstborn son was Shimri, who was made the chief by his father, even though he was not the firstborn (1Ch.26.11).
According to 1Ch.26.16, Hosah and his sons were assigned to guard the West Gate and the Shalleketh Gate on the ascending highway. This suggests that they had specific responsibilities in maintaining the security and order of the tabernacle complex.
The role of the gatekeepers was crucial in ensuring the sanctity and proper functioning of the tabernacle. They were responsible for guarding the entrances, regulating access, and maintaining order. Hosah's inclusion in the list of gatekeepers highlights the importance of this role and the dedication of the Levites in serving God and His people.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 18 are drawn. All 18 are listed below.
Father of
- Hilkiahregistry, no verse
- Shimriregistry1 Chronicles 26:10
- Tebaliahregistry, no verse
- Zechariahregistry, no verse
Took part in
Stands in the same events as
- Obed-edom2 events
- David1 event
- Gate1 event
- Family1 event
- Asaph1 event
- Ministry1 event
- Thanksgiving1 event
- Gatekeeper1 event
- Jeduthun1 event
- Celebration1 event
- Heman1 event
- Zechariah1 event
and 5 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
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1 Chronicles4 verses
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