1 Chronicles 15:23

And Berechiah and Elkanah were porters for the ark.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

In Context

22And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song. He instructed about the song because he was skilful.

24And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before the ark of God. And Obed-edom and Jehiah were porters for the ark.

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Cross References

2 Kings 22:4Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of LORD, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.

1 Chronicles 9:21Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tent of meeting.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 15:2-25

The Removal of the Ark. ( b. c. 1047.) 1 And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. 2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the Lord chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever. 3 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord unto his place, which he had prepared for it. 4 And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites: 5 Of… Read the whole commentary →

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