1 Chronicles 15:23

And Berechiah and Elkanah [are] gatekeepers for the Ark.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

In Context

22And Chenaniah, head of the Levites, [is] over the burden; he instructs about the burden, for he [is] intelligent.

24And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests, are blowing with trumpets before the Ark of God; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah [are] gatekeepers for the Ark.

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Cross References

2 Kings 22:4“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, and he completes the silver that is brought into the house of YHWH, that the keepers of the threshold have gathered from the people,

1 Chronicles 9:21Zechariah son of Meshelemiah [is] gatekeeper at the opening 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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