OLD TESTAMENT

1 Chronicles 9:26

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for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.

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Verse 26. To these. Hebrew “for these Levites, (Sellum, and so forth verse 17) four chief porters were in their set office,” for life, or as long as they were able to serve, and did not change every week like the rest.—Lord: the apartments of the priests, and the storehouses, ( Bible.) where all precious ornaments, wine, and so forth were kept. Calmet.

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