2 Chronicles 34:13
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But over them that carried burdens for divers uses, were scribes, and masters of the number of the Levites, and porters.

2 Kings 7:10
So they came to the gate of the city, and told them, saying: We went to the camp of the Syrians, and we found no man there, but horses, and asses tied, and the tents standing.

Nehemiah 4:10
And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed, and the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the wall.

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But over them that carried burdens for divers uses, were scribes, and masters of the number of the Levites, and porters.

the bearers

2 Chronicles 2:10,18 And I will give thy servants the workmen that are to cut down the trees, for their food twenty thousand cores of wheat, and as many cores of barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, and twenty thousand measures of oil. . . .

2 Chronicles 8:10 And all the chief captains of king Solomon's army were two hundred and fifty, who taught the people.

Nehemiah 4:10 And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed, and the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the wall.

and of the Levites

1 Chronicles 23:4,5 Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen, and distributed unto the ministry of the house of the Lord: and six thousand were the overseers and judges. . . .

scribes

Ezra 7:6 This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God had given to Israel: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.

Jeremiah 8:8 How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Indeed the lying pens of the scribes hath wrought falsehood.

Matthew 26:3 Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas:

officers

2 Chronicles 19:11 And Amarias the priest your high priest shall be chief in the things which regard God: and Zabadias the son of Ismahel, who is ruler in the house of Juda, shall be over those matters which belong to the king's office: and you have before you the Levites for masters, take courage and do diligently, and the Lord will be with you in good things.

1 Chronicles 23:4 Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen, and distributed unto the ministry of the house of the Lord: and six thousand were the overseers and judges.

1 Chronicles 26:29,30 But Chonenias and his sons were over the Isaarites, for the business abroad over Israel to teach them and judge them. . . .

porters

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.

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

1 Chronicles 15:18 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.

1 Chronicles 16:38,42 And Obededom, with his brethren sixty-eight: and Obededom the son of Idithun, and Hosa he appointed to be porters. . . .

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

Ezra 7:7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the children of the priests, and of the children of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and of the Nathinites to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

Context
Josiah Repairs the Temple
12And they did all faithfully. Now the overseers of the workmen were Jahath and Abdias of the sons of Merari, Zacharias and Mosollam of the sons of Caath, who hastened the work: all Levites skilful to play on instruments. 13But over them that carried burdens for divers uses, were scribes, and masters of the number of the Levites, and porters.
Lexicon
were over
וְעַ֣ל (wə·‘al)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the laborers
הַסַּבָּלִ֗ים (has·sab·bā·lîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5449: Burden bearer

and supervised
וּֽמְנַצְּחִים֙ (ū·mə·naṣ·ṣə·ḥîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5329: To glitter from afar, to be eminent, to be permanent

all
לְכֹל֙ (lə·ḵōl)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

who did
עֹשֵׂ֣ה (‘ō·śêh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

the work,
מְלָאכָ֔ה (mə·lā·ḵāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4399: Deputyship, ministry, employment, work, property

task
לַעֲבוֹדָ֖ה (la·‘ă·ḇō·w·ḏāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5656: Work of any kind

by task.
וַעֲבוֹדָ֑ה (wa·‘ă·ḇō·w·ḏāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5656: Work of any kind

Some of the Levites
וּמֵֽהַלְוִיִּ֔ם (ū·mê·hal·wî·yim)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m, Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3881: Levites -- descendant of Levi

were secretaries,
סוֹפְרִ֥ים (sō·wp̄·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5608: To count, recount, relate

officers,
וְשֹׁטְרִ֖ים (wə·šō·ṭə·rîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7860: A scribe, an official superintendent, magistrate

and gatekeepers.
וְשׁוֹעֲרִֽים׃ (wə·šō·w·‘ă·rîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7778: A gatekeeper


Additional Translations
were over the laborers and supervised all who did the work, task by task. Some of the Levites were secretaries, officers, and gatekeepers.Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that worked the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all that did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

And overseers were over the burden-bearers, and over all the workmen in the respective works; and of the Levites were appointed scribes, and judges, and porters.

They were also over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that worked in any manner of service. And of the Levites were the scribes, and officers, and doorkeepers.

Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all that did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all who did the work in every kind of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

and over the burden-bearers, and overseers of every one doing work for service and service; and of the Levites are scribes, and officers, and gatekeepers.
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