1 Chronicles 9:24

24 per quattuor ventos erant ostiarii id est ad orientem et ad occidentem ad aquilonem et ad austrum

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.

1 Chronicles 9:24 In-Context

22 omnes hii electi in ostiarios per portas ducenti duodecim et descripti in villis propriis quos constituerunt David et Samuhel videns in fide sua

23 tam ipsos quam filios eorum in ostiis domus Domini et in tabernaculo vicibus suis

24 per quattuor ventos erant ostiarii id est ad orientem et ad occidentem ad aquilonem et ad austrum

25 fratres autem eorum in viculis morabantur et veniebant in sabbatis suis de tempore usque ad tempus

26 his quattuor Levitis creditus erat omnis numerus ianitorum et erant super exedras et thesauros domus Domini