1 Chronicles 9:27

And they abode in their watches round about the temple of the Lord: that when it was time, they might open the gates in the morning.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.

In Context

26To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the porters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the Lord.

28And some of their stock had the charge of the vessels for the ministry: for the vessels were both brought in and carried out by number.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 23:30And the Levites are to stand in the morning to give thanks, and to sing praises to the Lord: and in like manner in the evening,

Jeremiah 35:4And I brought them into the house of the Lord, to the treasure house of the sons of Hanan, the son of Jegedelias the man of God, which was by the treasure house of the princes, above the treasure of Maasias the son of Sellum, who was keeper of the entry.

Romans 12:7Or ministry, in ministering; or he that teacheth, in doctrine;

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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