1 Chronicles 9:24

24 The gatekeepers were on the four sides, to the east, west, north and south.

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1 Chronicles 9:24 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 9:24

In four quarters were the porters
For, according to the Targum on ( 1 Chronicles 9:22 ) there were twenty four wards:

towards the east, west, north, and south;
and, as the same paraphrase has it, six wards to the east, six to the west, six to the north, and six to the south.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

1 Chronicles 9:24 In-Context

22 All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds were 212 . These were enrolled by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their office of trust.

23 So they and their sons had charge of the gates of the house of the LORD , even the house of the tent, as guards.

24 The gatekeepers were on the four sides, to the east, west, north and south.

25 Their relatives in their villages were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them;

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

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[a]. Lit "to the four winds"

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1 Chronicles 9:24 Meaning and Commentary

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