1 Chronicles 9:26

for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in a set office, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

In Context

25And their brethren, and their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:

27And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge thereof was upon them, and to them pertained the opening thereof morning by morning.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 31:5And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

Nehemiah 13:5had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave offerings for the priests.

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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