1 Chronicles 26:1
Good News Translation
These are the assignments of work for the Levites who served as Temple guards. From the clan of Korah there was Meshelemiah son of Kore, of the family of Asaph.

New Revised Standard Version
As for the divisions of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

Contemporary English Version
The temple guards were also divided into groups according to clans. Meshelemiah son of Kore was from the Korah clan and was a descendant of Asaph.

New American Bible
As for the divisions of gatekeepers: Of the Korahites was Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, one of the sons of Abiasaph.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the divisions of the porters: of the Corites Meselemia, the son of Core, of the sons of Asaph.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the divisions of the porters: of the Corites Meselemia, the son of Core, of the sons of Asaph.

the divisions

1 Chronicles 26:14 And the lot of the east fell to Selemias. But to his son Zacharias, a very wise and learned man, the north gate fell by lot.

.) the southern to Obed-edom (ver

1 Chronicles 26:15 And to Obededom and his sons that towards the south: in which part of the house was the council of the ancients.

) and the western to Shuppim and Hosah (ver

1 Chronicles 26:16 To Sephim, and Hosa towards the west, by the gate which leadeth to the way of the ascent: ward against ward.

). These several persons were captains of these porter-bands, or door-keepers, at the different gates. There were probably a thousand men under each of these captains; as we find, from

1 Chronicles 23:5 Moreover four thousand were porters: and as many singers singing to the Lord with the instruments, which he had made to sing with.

, that their whole number was four thousand.

the porters

1 Chronicles 9:17-27 And the porters were Sellum, and Accub, and Telmon, and Ahiman: and their brother Sellum was the prince, . . .

1 Chronicles 15:18,23,24 And with them their brethren: in the second rank, Zacharias, and Ben, and Jaziel, and Semiramoth, and Jahiel, and Ani, and Eliab, and Banaias, and Maasias, and Mathathias, and Eliphalu, and Macenias, and Obededom, and Jehiel, the porters. . . .

2 Chronicles 23:19 He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord, that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.

Korhites

Numbers 26:9-11 His sons, were Namuel and Dathan and Abiron. These are Dathan and Abiron the princes of the people, that rose against Moses and Aaron in the sedition of Core, when they rebelled against the Lord: . . .

Psalm 44:1 Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God. [1] Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding.

Psalm 49:1 Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core. [2] Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

Meshelemiah.

1 Chronicles 25:14 The seventh to Isreela, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

Shelemiah

1 Chronicles 6:37 The son of Thahath, the son of Asir, the son of Abiasaph, the son of Core,

1 Chronicles 9:19 But Sellum the son of Core, the son of Abiasaph, the son of Core, with his brethren and his father's house, the Corites were over the works of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their families in turns were keepers of the entrance of the camp of the Lord.

Ebiasaph

Context
The Divisions of the Gatekeepers
1And the divisions of the porters: of the Corites Meselemia, the son of Core, of the sons of Asaph.2The sons of Meselemia: Zacharias the firstborn, Jadihel the second, Zabadias the third, Jathanael the fourth,…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 9:22
All these that were chosen to be porters at the gates, were two hundred and twelve: the they were registered in their proper towns: whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their trust.

1 Chronicles 25:31
The four and twentieth to Romemthiezer, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

1 Chronicles 26:2
The sons of Meselemia: Zacharias the firstborn, Jadihel the second, Zabadias the third, Jathanael the fourth,

2 Chronicles 8:14
And he appointed according to the order of David his father the offices of the priests in their ministries: and the Levites in their order to give praise, and minister before the priests according to the duty of every day: and the porters in their divisions by gate and gate: for so David the man of God had commanded.

Ezekiel 44:11
They shall be officers in my sanctuary, and doorkeepers of the gates of the house, and ministers to the house: they shall slay the holocausts, and the victims of the people: and they shall stand in their sight, to minister to them.

1 Chronicles 25:31
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