All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve . These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
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Gill's Exposition
In four quarters were the porters,.... For, according to the Targum on Ch1 9:22 there were twenty four wards:
towards the east, west, north, and south; and, as the same paraphrase has it, six wards…
Barnes' Notes
The porters, like the singers Neh 12:29, dwelt for the most part in the villages round Jerusalem. They were the descendants of those originally selected for the work by David. David’s arrangements are…
We have here a further account of the good posture which the affairs of religion were put into immediately upon the return of the people out of Babylon. They had smarted for their former neglect of…
Cambridge Bible
All these Cp. Ezr 2:41 (Neh 7:45); Neh 11:19. The discrepancy in numbers between Chron. and Neh. and also between Nehemiah 7 and Nehemiah 11 may be explained by supposing some difference in the manner…
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