1 Chronicles 9:24

The gates were toward the four winds, eastward, westward, northward, southward.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

In Context

23And these and their sons were over the gates in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the tabernacle, to keep watch.

25And their brethren were in their courts, to enter in weekly from time to time with these.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 8:14And he established, according to the order of his father David, the courses of the priests, and that according to their public ministrations: and the Levites were appointed over their charges, to praise and minister before the priests according to the daily order: and the porters were appointed according to their courses to the different gates: for thus were the commandments of David the man of God.

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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