Chronicles I 9:24

24 The gates were toward the four winds, eastward, westward, northward, southward.

Chronicles I 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.

Chronicles I 9:24 In-Context

22 All the chosen porters in the gates two hundred and twelve, these in their courts, their distribution: these David and Samuel the seer established in their charge.

23 And these and their sons over the gates in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the tabernacle, to keep watch.

24 The gates were toward the four winds, eastward, westward, northward, southward.

25 And their brethren in their courts, to enter in weekly from time to time with these.

26 For four strong have the charge of the gates; and the Levites were over the chambers, and they keep watch over the treasures of the house of God.