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1 Chronicles 9:18

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— [being stationed] until now at the king’s gate to the east). These [were] the gatekeepers for the camp of the sons of Levi.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they [were] porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they [were] porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And they have been hitherto in the king's gate eastward: they were the doorkeepers in the camps of the children of Levi.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— and, hitherto, they were in the gate of the king, eastward,—the same, were the keepers of the gate, for the camps of the sons of Levi.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— and hitherto they [are] at the gate of the king eastward; they [are] the gatekeepers for the companies of the sons of Levi.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Until that time, in the king's gate eastward, the sons of Levi waited by their turns.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— For they were porters to this time by companies of the children of Leui vnto the Kinges gate eastward.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— (Who hitherto [waited] in the kings gate Eastward) they were Porters in the companies of the children of Leui.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward; they were the porters in the companies of the descendants of Levi.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— and [he waited] hitherto in the king's gate eastward: these [are] the gates of the companies of the sons of Levi.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they [were] porters in the companies of the children of Lewi.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Who hitherto x5704
(5704) Complement
עַד
`ad
{ad}
Properly the same as H5703 (used as a preposition, adverb or conjugation; especially with a preposition); as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with).
x2008
(2008) Complement
הֵנָּה
hennah
{hane'-naw}
From H2004; hither or thither (but used both of place and time).
[waited] in the king's 4428
{4428} Prime
מֶּלֶךְ
melek
{meh'-lek}
From H4427; a king.
gate 8179
{8179} Prime
שַׁעַר
sha`ar
{shah'-ar}
From H8176 in its original sense; an opening, that is, door or gate.
eastward: 4217
{4217} Prime
מִזְרָח
mizrach
{miz-rawkh'}
From H2224; sunrise, that is, the east.
they x1992
(1992) Complement
הֵם
hem
{haym}
Masculine plural from H1931; they (only used when emphatic).
[were] porters 7778
{7778} Prime
שׁוֹעֵר
show`er
{sho-are'}
Active participle of H8176 (as denominative from H8179); a janitor.
in the companies 4264
{4264} Prime
מַחֲנֶה
machaneh
{makh-an-eh'}
From H2583; an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence an army, whether literally (of soldiers) or figuratively (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts).
of the children 1121
{1121} Prime
בֵּן
ben
{bane}
From H1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like H0001, H0251, etc.).
of Lëwî לֵוִי. 3878
{3878} Prime
לֵוִי
Leviy
{lay-vee'}
From H3867; attached; Levi, a son of Jacob.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

1 Chronicles 9:18

_ _ the king’s gate — The king had a gate from his palace into the temple (2 Kings 16:18), which doubtless was kept constantly closed except for the monarch’s use; and although there was no king in Israel on the return from the captivity, yet the old ceremonial was kept up, probably in the hope that the scepter would, ere long, be restored to the house of David. It is an honor by which Eastern kings are distinguished, to have a gate exclusively devoted to their own special use, and which is kept constantly closed, except when he goes out or returns (Ezekiel 44:2). There being no king then in Israel, this gate would be always shut.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on 1 Chronicles 9:14-34.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

1 Chronicles 9:18

King's gate — In the east — gate of the temple, which was so called, because the kings of Judah used to go to the temple through that gate. Under this gate he comprehends all the rest, which also were guarded by these porters. Companies — Or, according to the courses. They kept the gates successively, according to that method into which the Levites were distributed, for the more convenient management of their several offices; among which this of the porters was one.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

1 Chronicles 9:18

Who hitherto [waited] in the (e) king's gate eastward: they [were] porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

(e) So called because the king came into the temple by it, and not the common people.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
Who hitherto waited:
The original is wead hennah, which Houbigant and Dr. Geddes consider as a proper name, and render, "And Adanah was over the eastern gate, called the king's;" i.e., the gate by which the kings of Judah went to the temple. The list is here nearly the same with those found in Ezra and Nehemiah, and contains those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel, but the list in Nehemiah is more ample, probably because it contains those who came afterwards; the object of the sacred writer here being to give the names of those who came first (
1 Chronicles 9:2 Now the first inhabitants that [dwelt] in their possessions in their cities [were], the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
). These consisted of men belonging not only to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but to many of the other tribes of Israel, who took advantage of the proclamation of Cyrus to return to Jerusalem. Properly speaking, the divisions mentioned here constituted the whole of the Israelitish people, who were divided into priests, Levites, common Israelites, and Nethinims.

the king's:

1 Kings 10:5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
2 Kings 11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
Ezekiel 44:2-3 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. ... [It is] for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of [that] gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
Ezekiel 46:1-2 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. ... And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of [that] gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
Acts 3:11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

they:

1 Chronicles 26:12-19 Among 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. ... These [are] the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.
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1K 10:5. 2K 11:19. 1Ch 9:2; 26:12. Ezk 44:2; 46:1. Ac 3:11.

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