12Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.
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And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-19)Observe, I. There were porters appointed to attend the temple, who guarded all the avenues that let to it, opened and shut all the outer gates and attended at them, not only for the state, but for service, to direct and instruct those who were going to worship in the courts of the sanctuary in the decorum they were to observe, to encourage those that were timorous, to send back the strangers and u…
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