17Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.
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In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
Commentary
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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