LEt them shut the doors, and bar them] Or, and shut the doors, do ye lay hold on them: That is, when the porters shut the doors in the evening, feel ye your selves whither they be shut fast or no.
appoint] Heb. appoint thou; Hanani, or Hananiah. For it is likely they would not be there both at once.
against his house] That is, the place where his house should be built; for many had no houses yet, v. 4. Or, where his present place of abode was.
large and great] Heb. broad in spaces.