1 Chronicles 9:18

who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward; they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Who hitherto waited in the king’s gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

In Context

17And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brother Shallum the chief;

19And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of his father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the Tent; and their fathers had been over the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entry;

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:5and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his burnt-offering which he offered in the house of the LORD, there was no more spirit in her.

2 Kings 16:18And the covered place for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he unto the house of the LORD, because of the king of Assyria.

Ezekiel 44:2And the LORD said unto me: 'This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it, for the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.

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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