1st Chronicles Chapter 9 verse 18 Holy Bible
who hitherto `waited' in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.
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Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.
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And they have been hitherto in the king's gate eastward: they were the doorkeepers in the camps of the children of Levi.
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Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
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Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
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who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.
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and hitherto they `are' at the gate of the king eastward; they `are' the gatekeepers for the companies of the sons of Levi.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Hitherto (so John 5:17). The reference must be to Shallum, for see vers. 24-26 and Ezekiel 46:1-3. The meaning of the remaining sentence of this verse is, "These were the gate-keepers for the Levite encampments side," or what, in later temple times, answered to it.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) They were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.--Rather, They are warders for the camps of the sons of Levi. (Comp. Numbers 3:23 et seq. where it is prescribed that the Levites encamp on the four sides of the tabernacle.) The primitive terminology is used in order to convey the idea that the Levitical wardership of the Temple went back historically to that of the Mosaic sanctuary.
