1 Chronicles 9:25

Now their brothers were staying in the villages, and they arrived on their Sabbaths, from time to time.

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In The King James Version

And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.

In Context

24At the four directions, there were gatekeepers, that is, at the east, and at the west, and at the north, and at the south.

26To these four Levites were entrusted the entire number of the gatekeepers, and they were over the chambers and storehouses of the house of the Lord.

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Cross References

2 Kings 11:7Yet truly, let two parts of you, all who depart on the Sabbath, keep watch over the house of the Lord concerning the king.

2 Chronicles 23:8Then the Levites, and all of Judah, acted in accord with all that the high priest Jehoiada had instructed. And each of them took the men who were under him, and who were arriving by the course of the Sabbath, with those who had fulfilled the Sabbath and who were about to depart. For indeed the high priest Jehoiada had not permitted the companies to depart, which were accustomed to replace one another each week.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 9:15-35

Genealogies; the Employment of the Priests. ( b. c. 1400.) 14 And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; 15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph; 16 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites. 17 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and… Read the whole commentary →

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