1 Chronicles 9:22
Good News Translation
In all, 212 men were chosen as guards for the entrances and gates. They were registered according to the villages where they lived. It was King David and the prophet Samuel who had put their ancestors in these responsible positions.

New Revised Standard Version
All these, who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds, were two hundred twelve. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and the seer Samuel established them in their office of trust.

Contemporary English Version
There was a total of 212 guards, all of them listed in the family records in their towns. Their ancestors had been chosen by King David and by Samuel the prophet to be responsible for this work,

New American Bible
In all, those who were chosen for gatekeepers at the threshold were two hundred and twelve. They were inscribed in the family records of their villages. David and Samuel the seer had established them in their position of trust.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

in their

1 Chronicles 9:16,25 And Obdia the son of Semeia, the son of Galal, the son of Idithum: and Barachia the son of Asa, the son of Elcana, who dwelt in the suburbs of Netophati. . . .

Nehemiah 11:25-30,36 And in the houses through all their countries. Of the children of Juda some dwelt at Cariath-Arbe, and in the villages thereof: and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof: and at Cabseel, and in the villages thereof. . . .

Nehemiah 12:28,29,44 And the sons of the singing men were gathered together out of the plain country about Jerusalem, and out of the villages of Nethuphati, . . .

David

1 Chronicles 23:1-26:32 David being old and full of days, made Solomon his son king over Israel. . . .

1 Chronicles 28:13,21 And of the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, for all the works of the house of the Lord, and for all the vessels of the service of the temple of the Lord. . . .

Samuel

1 Samuel 9:9 Now in time past in Israel, when a man went to consult God, he spoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now called a prophet, in time past was called a seer.

did ordain [heb] founded

1 Chronicles 9:26,31 To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the porters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the Lord. . . .

Context
The People of Jerusalem
21And Zacharias the son of Mosollamia, was porter of the gate of the tabernacle of the testimony: 22All 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.23As well them as their sons, to keep the gates of the house of the Lord, and the tabernacle by their turns.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 9:9
Now in time past in Israel, when a man went to consult God, he spoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now called a prophet, in time past was called a seer.

1 Chronicles 9:23
As well them as their sons, to keep the gates of the house of the Lord, and the tabernacle by their turns.

1 Chronicles 9:31
And Mathathias a Levite, the firstborn of Sellum the Corite, was overseer of such things as were fried the fryingpan.

1 Chronicles 26:1
And the divisions of the porters: of the Corites Meselemia, the son of Core, of the sons of Asaph.

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.

2 Chronicles 31:15
And under his charge were Eden, and Benjamin, Jesue, and Semeias, and Amarias, and Sechenias, in the cities of the priests, to distribute faithfully portions to their brethren, both little and great:

2 Chronicles 31:18
And to all the multitude, both to their wives, and to their children of both sexes, victuals were given faithfully out of the things that had been sanctified.

1 Chronicles 9:21
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