18being stationed at the King's Gate on the east, up to the present time. These were the gatekeepers belonging to the camp of the Levites.


In Context

15 Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal and Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zicri, the son of Asaph;

16 Obadiah son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berekiah son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

17 The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman and their brothers, Shallum their chief

18 being stationed at the King's Gate on the east, up to the present time. These were the gatekeepers belonging to the camp of the Levites.

19 Shallum son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his fellow gatekeepers from his family (the Korahites) were responsible for guarding the thresholds of the Tent just as their fathers had been responsible for guarding the entrance to the dwelling of the Lord .

20 In earlier times Phinehas son of Eleazar was in charge of the gatekeepers, and the Lord was with him.

1st Chronicles 9:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:18Who hitherto [waited] in the king’s gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:18Until that time, in the king's gate eastward, the sons of Levi waited by their turns.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:18who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:18And they have been hitherto in the king's gate eastward: they were the doorkeepers in the camps of the children of Levi.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:18who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:18Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:18who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:18and hitherto they are at the gate of the king eastward; they are the gatekeepers for the companies of the sons of Levi.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:18Who till now waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.