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1 Chronicles 9:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief; "

1 Chronicles 9:17

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15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

16 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.

17 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;

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

19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the 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.

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2 Chronicles 8:14

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"And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded."

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1 Chronicles 26:1-32

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"Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph."

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2 Chronicles 35:15

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"And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them."

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1 Chronicles 23:5

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"Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith."

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Nehemiah 11:19

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"Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two."

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1 Chronicles 9:31

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"And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans."

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From This Chapter

1 Chronicles 9:1

"So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression."

1 Chronicles 9:2

"Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims."

1 Chronicles 9:3

"And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;"

1 Chronicles 9:4

"Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah."

1 Chronicles 9:5

"And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons."

1 Chronicles 9:6

"And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety."

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