1 Chronicles 9:18

18 until then they [were] gatekeepers at the gate of the king on the east [side] toward the camps of the Levites.

1 Chronicles 9:18 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 9:18

Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward
At the gate through which the king went into the temple, and was at the east of it; and here these porters were placed in the same order after the captivity, and their return from it, as before:

they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi;
or in the camp of Levi, which was placed around the tabernacle, as in the wilderness: the Septuagint version is, "these are the gates of the camp of the children of Levi"; at which these porters were placed.

1 Chronicles 9:18 In-Context

16 Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of Netophathite.

17 And the gatekeepers [were] Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum [was] the chief);

18 until then they [were] gatekeepers at the gate of the king on the east [side] toward the camps of the Levites.

19 And Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of the house of his fathers, the Korahites, [were] over the work of the service, the guardians of the entrances to the tent, and their fathers [were] over the camp of Yahweh, guardians of the entrance.

20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the leader over them {in time past}; Yahweh [was] with him.