1 Chronicles 9:18

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
he was previously stationed at the King’s Gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the Levites.

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

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

English Standard Version
until then they were in the king's gate on the east side as the gatekeepers of the camps of the Levites.

New Century Version
These gatekeepers from the tribe of Levi still stand next to the King's Gate on the east side of the city.

New English Translation
he serves to this day at the King's Gate on the east. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the descendants of Levi.

Amplified Bible
who until now was assigned to the king's gate on the east side) they were the gatekeepers for the camp of the Levites.

New American Standard Bible
being stationed until now at the king's gate to the east). These were the gatekeepers for the camp of the sons of Levi.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
For they were porters to this time by companies of the children of Leui vnto the Kinges gate eastward.

Legacy Standard Bible
being stationed until now at the king's gate to the east). These were the gatekeepers for the camp of the sons of Levi.

Berean Standard Bible
he was previously stationed at the King's Gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the Levites.

Contemporary English Version
and for a long time they had been the guards at the King's Gate on the east side of the city. Before that, their ancestors guarded the entrance to the Levite camp.

Complete Jewish Bible
Previously they had guarded the king's gate to the east; they were gatekeepers for the camp of the descendants of Levi.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Now these men stand next to the King's Gate on the east side. They were the gatekeepers from the tribe of Levi.

George Lamsa Translation
Who hitherto waited in the kings gate eastward; they were the porters in the companies of the descendants of Levi.

Good News Translation
Down to that time members of their clans had been stationed at the eastern entrance to the King's Gate. Formerly they had stood guard at the gates to the camps of the Levites.

Lexham English Bible
until then they were gatekeepers at the gate of the king on the east side toward the camps of the Levites.

Literal Translation
And until they were at the king's gate eastward; they were gatekeepers in the companies of the sons of Levi.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for hither to had the children of Leui kepte the watch at the eastsyde of the kinges gate by armies.

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

Bible in Basic English
Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they watched hitherto, euen vnto the kinges gate eastwarde by course, the children of Leui.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward; they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

King James Version (1611)
(Who hitherto waited in the kings gate Eastward) they were Porters in the companies of the children of Leui.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and he waited hitherto in the king’s gate eastward: these are the gates of the companies of the sons of Levi.

English Revised Version
who hitherto [waited] in the king’s gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
til to that tyme thei kepten bi her whilis in the yate of the kyng at the eest, of the sones of Leuy.

Update Bible Version
who until now [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the sons of Levi.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they [were] porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

New King James Version
Until then they had been gatekeepers for the camps of the children of Levi at the King's Gate on the east.

New Living Translation
Prior to this time, they were responsible for the King's Gate on the east side. These men served as gatekeepers for the camps of the Levites.

New Life Bible
who was at the king's gate on the east side.) These were the gate-keepers for the family group of the Levites.

New Revised Standard
stationed previously in the king's gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers of the camp of the Levites.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, hitherto, they were in the gate of the king, eastward, - the same, were the keepers of the gate, for the camps of the sons of Levi.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Until that time, in the king’s gate eastward, the sons of Levi waited by their turns.

Revised Standard Version
stationed hitherto in the king's gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers of the camp of the Levites.

Young's Literal Translation
and hitherto they [are] at the gate of the king eastward; they [are] the gatekeepers for the companies of the sons of Levi.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
being stationed until now at the king's gate to the east). These were the gatekeepers for the camp of the sons of Levi.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴From the Levites were Shemaiah son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, a Merarite; then Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zicri, the son of Asaph; also Obadiah son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and finally Berekiah son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites. ¹⁷The security guards were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers. Shallum was the chief and up to now the security guard at the King's Gate on the east. They also served as security guards at the camps of Levite families. ¹⁹Shallum son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, along with his brothers in the Korahite family, were in charge of the services of worship as doorkeepers of the Tent, as their ancestors had guarded the entrance to the camp of God. In the early days, Phinehas son of Eleazar was in charge of the security guards—God be with him! Now Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was the security guard at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. The number of those who had been chosen to be security guards was 212—they were officially registered in their own camps. David and Samuel the seer handpicked them for their dependability. They and their sons had the permanent responsibility for guarding the gates of God's house, the house of worship; the main security guards were posted at the four entrances, east, west, north, and south; their brothers in the villages were scheduled to give them relief weekly—the four main security guards were responsible for round-the-clock surveillance. ²⁶Being Levites, they were responsible for the security of all supplies and valuables in the house of God. They kept watch all through the night and had the key to open the doors each morning. Some were in charge of the articles used in The Temple worship—they counted them both when they brought them in and when they took them out. Others were in charge of supplies in the sanctuary—flour, wine, oil, incense, and spices. And some of the priests were assigned to mixing the oils for the perfume. The Levite Mattithiah, the firstborn son of Shallum the Korahite, was responsible for baking the bread for the services of worship. Some of the brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were assigned to preparing the bread set out on the table each Sabbath. ³³And then there were the musicians, all heads of Levite families. They had permanent living quarters in The Temple; because they were on twenty-four-hour duty, they were exempt from all other duties. These were the heads of Levite families as designated in their family tree. They lived in Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Who hitherto waited: The original is wead hennah, which Houbigant and Dr. Geddes consider as a proper name, and render, "And Adanah was over the eastern gate, called the king's;" i.e., the gate by which the kings of Judah went to the temple. The list is here nearly the same with those found in Ezra and Nehemiah, and contains those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel, but the list in Nehemiah is more ample, probably because it contains those who came afterwards; the object of the sacred writer here being to give the names of those who came first - 1 Chronicles 9:2. These consisted of men belonging not only to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but to many of the other tribes of Israel, who took advantage of the proclamation of Cyrus to return to Jerusalem. Properly speaking, the divisions mentioned here constituted the whole of the Israelitish people, who were divided into priests, Levites, common Israelites, and Nethinims.

the king's: 1 Kings 10:5, 2 Kings 11:19, Ezekiel 44:2, Ezekiel 44:3, Ezekiel 46:1, Ezekiel 46:2, Acts 3:11

they: 1 Chronicles 26:12-19

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 9:4 - ascent Nehemiah 11:3 - Now Jeremiah 35:4 - the keeper Ezekiel 40:6 - unto

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
This is the family tree of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After the flood, they themselves had sons.

Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, Canaan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward,.... At the gate through which the king went into the temple, and was at the east of it; and here these porters were placed in the same order after the captivity, and their return from it, as before:

they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi; or in the camp of Levi, which was placed around the tabernacle, as in the wilderness: the Septuagint version is, "these are the gates of the camp of the children of Levi"; at which these porters were placed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who hitherto waited - Translate, “Who to this day waits. These were the porters in the stations of the sons of Levi.” The words of the first clause refer to Shallum, and imply that, whereas Shallum (or his house) had originally the general superintendence of the temple gates, a change had been made when the author wrote, and Shallum’s charge had become the east gate only. The second clause means; “these were the porters in those fixed stations at the outer gates of the Temple, which corresponded to the camp stations of the Levites who guarded the tabernacle in the early times.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 9:18. The king's gate — That by which the kings of Judah went to the temple; see on 2 Kings 16:18.