1 Chronicles 26:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.

1 Chronicles 26:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 9:24
In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
2 Chronicles 8:14
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.

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Asuppim Levites Porters

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17-19. Eastward were six Levites--because the gate there was the most frequented. There were four at the north gate; four at the south, at the storehouse which was adjoining the south, and which had two entrance gates, one leading in a southwesterly direction to the city, and the other direct west, two porters each. At the Parbar towards the west, there were six men posted--four at the causeway or…