1 Chronicles 9:13–28

¹³And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; ^†very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

^14oAnd of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; ¹⁵And ^pBakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and ^qMattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of ^rAsaph; ¹⁶And ^pObadiah the son of ^pShemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of ^sJeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the ^tNetophathites. ¹⁷And the porters were, ^uShallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief; ¹⁸Who hitherto waited in ^wthe king’s gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi. ¹⁹And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of ^xEbiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, ^ythe Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the ^†gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the Lord, were keepers of the entry. ²⁰And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and ^zthe Lord was with him. ²¹And ^aZechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. ²²All these which were ^bchosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom ^aDavid and Samuel ^cthe seer ^†did ordain in their ^||set office. ²³So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the Lord, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards. ²⁴In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south. ²⁵And their brethren, which were ^din their villages, were to come ^eafter seven days from time to time with them. ²⁶For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their ^||set office, and were over the ^||chambers and treasuries of the house of God. ²⁷And they lodged round about the house of God, because ^fthe charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them. ²⁸And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should ^†bring them in and out by tale.