1 Chronicles 9:18

and, hitherto, they were in the gate of the king, eastward,—the same, were the keepers of the gate, for the camps of the sons of Levi.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 keepers of the gates, were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman,—and their brethren—Shallum the chief;

19And, Shallum, son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah and his brethren of his ancestral house—the Korahites, were over the business of the service, watchers at the vestibule of the tent,—and, their fathers, had been over the camp of Yahweh, watchers at the entrance.

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:5and the food of his table, and the seated assembly of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers with their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he ascended unto the house of Yahweh, there was in her no more spirit.

2 Kings 16:18Also, the covered walk for the Sabbath, which they had built in the house, and the outer entrance for the king, he changed in the house of Yahweh,—because of the king of Assyria.

Ezekiel 44:2Then said Yahweh unto me This gate shut, shall remain It shall not be opened And no man shall enter thereby, Because Yahweh, God of Israel, doth enter thereby,- Therefore shall it remain—shut.

Acts 3:11And, as he held fast Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them, in the portico which is called Solomon’s,—greatly amazed.

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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