1 Chronicles 26:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their leaders, had duties, just as their kindred did, ministering in the house of the Lord,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Of these were the divisions of the gatekeepers, even of the chief men, having duties, as did their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Of these were the courses of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brethren, to minister in the house of Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹² These were the divisions of the gatekeepers with their leaders, who were responsible to minister in the LORD’s temple, along with their relatives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² These were distributed as porters, so that the leaders of the posts, as well as their brothers, were ministering continually in the house of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Among these were the divisions of the porters, so that the chiefs of the wards, as well as their brethren, always ministered in the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 26:12 Cross References

2 Kings 7:10

So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We went to the Aramean camp, but there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”

1 Chronicles 25:8

And they cast lots for their duties, small and great, teacher and pupil alike.

1 Chronicles 26:11

Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth; all the sons and brothers of Hosah totaled thirteen.

1 Chronicles 26:13

and they cast lots by ancestral houses, small and great alike, for their gates.

1 Chronicles 9:23

So they and their descendants were in charge of the gates of the house of the Lord, that is, the house of the tent, as guards.

2 Chronicles 31:14

Kore son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the east gate, was in charge of the freewill offerings to God, to apportion the contribution reserved for the Lord and the most holy offerings.

2 Chronicles 35:15

The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and the king’s seer Jeduthun. The gatekeepers were at each gate; they did not need to interrupt their service, for their kindred the Levites made preparations for them.