KJV King James Version
All these [which were] chosen to be porters in the gates [were] two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
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1 Chronicles 9:22
All these [which were] chosen to be porters in the gates [were] two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their positions of trust.
WEB World English Bible
All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust.
ASV American Standard Version
All these that were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
All of those who are chosen for gatekeepers at the thresholds are two hundred and twelve; they are in their villages, by their genealogy; they whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their office.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 9
19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, [were] over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, [being] over the host of the LORD, [were] keepers of the entry.
20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, [and] the LORD [was] with him.
21 [And] Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah [was] porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
22 All these [which were] chosen to be porters in the gates [were] two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
23 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.
24 In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
25 And their brethren, [which were] in their villages, [were] to come after seven days from time to time with them.
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כֻּלָּ֤םH3605 · kolallהַבְּרוּרִים֙H1305 · ba.rarto purifyלְשֹׁעֲרִ֣יםH7778 · sho.ergatekeeperבַּסִּפִּ֔יםH5592 · saphbasinמָאתַ֖יִםH3967 · me.ahhundredוּשְׁנֵ֣יםH8147 · she.na.yimtwoעָשָׂ֑רH6240 · a.sartenהֵ֤מָּהH1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)בְחַצְרֵיהֶם֙H2691 · cha.tsercourtהִתְיַחְשָׂ֔םH3187 · ya.cha.sto enrollהֵ֣מָּהH1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)יִסַּ֥דH3245 · ya.sadto foundדָּוִ֛ידH1732 · da.vidDavidוּשְׁמוּאֵ֥לH8050 · she.mu.elSamuelהָרֹאֶ֖הH7203 · ro.ehseerבֶּאֱמוּנָתָֽם׃H530 · e.mu.nahfaithfulness
Cross-references
1 Samuel 9:9(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for [he that is] now [called] a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)1 Chronicles 23:1-32So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.1 Chronicles 28:13Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD.1 Chronicles 9:31And Mattithiah, [one] of the Levites, who [was] the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.1 Chronicles 26:1-2Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites [was] Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.1 Chronicles 9:16And 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.Nehemiah 11:25-30And for the villages, with their fields, [some] of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and [in] the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and [in] the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and [in] the villages thereof,2 Chronicles 31:18And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:1 Chronicles 9:25-26And their brethren, [which were] in their villages, [were] to come after seven days from time to time with them.1 Chronicles 28:21And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, [even they shall be with thee] for all the service of the house of God: and [there shall be] with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people [will be] wholly at thy commandment.Nehemiah 11:36And of the Levites [were] divisions [in] Judah, [and] in Benjamin.2 Chronicles 31:15And next him [were] Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in [their] set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:1 Chronicles 25:1-26Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:Nehemiah 12:28-29And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;Nehemiah 12:44And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
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