1 Chronicles 9:23

So they and their children guarded the gates of the house of Yahweh, the tabernacle.

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So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the Lord, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.

In Context

22All those who were chosen as gatekeepers at the entrances numbered 212. Their names were recorded in the people's records in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had placed them into their positions of trust.

24The gatekeepers were posted on all four sides, toward the east, west, north, and south.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 26:12These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their leaders, had responsibilities, like their relatives, to serve in Yahweh's house.

Nehemiah 12:45They performed the service of their God, and the service of purification, and so did the singers and the gatekeepers, in keeping with the command of David and of Solomon his son.

Ezekiel 44:14But I will place them as keepers of the work in the house, for all of its duties and everything that is done in it.

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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