For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
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Gill's Exposition
And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale. Which the priests used in sacrificing, and which the Levites brought to them, and…
Barnes' Notes
Rather, “For the four chief porters, who were themselves Levites, were in trust, who also had the charge of the chambers, etc.” A contrast seems intended between the four chief porters, whose charge…
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
For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office R.V. For the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in a set office. It seems from this passage (and also from the structure of…
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