1 Chronicles 9:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² All these who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds were two hundred twelve. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and the seer Samuel established them in their office of trust.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² All these chosen to be keepers at the thresholds were 212. These were enrolled by their genealogies in their villages [around Jerusalem], these men [whose grandfathers] David and Samuel the seer had established to their office of trust.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² All these that were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.

Common English Bible

²² All those selected as gatekeepers at the entrances were two hundred twelve. They were listed in the family records by their settlements. David and Samuel the seer assigned them to their trusted position.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² All these, chosen as porters for the gates, were two hundred twelve. And they were recorded in their own towns, those whom David, and the seer Samuel, appointed, in their faith,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² All these that were chosen to be porters at the gates were two hundred and twelve: and they were registered in their proper towns: whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their trust.

1 Chronicles 9:22 Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:13

for the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, and all the work of the service in the house of the Lord; for all the vessels for the service in the house of the Lord,

1 Chronicles 28:21

Here are the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God, and with you in all the work will be every volunteer who has skill for any kind of service; also the officers and all the people will be wholly at your command.”

1 Chronicles 29:29

Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the records of the seer Samuel, and in the records of the prophet Nathan, and in the records of the seer Gad,

1 Chronicles 9:16

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

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.

1 Chronicles 9:31

and Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was in charge of making the flat cakes.

2 Chronicles 23:19

He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the Lord so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean.

2 Chronicles 31:15

Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah were faithfully assisting him in the cities of the priests, to distribute the portions to their kindred, old and young alike, by divisions,

2 Chronicles 31:18

They were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole multitude, for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.

Nehemiah 11:36

And certain divisions of the Levites in Judah were joined to Benjamin.

Nehemiah 12:44

On that day men were appointed over the chambers for the stores, the contributions, the first fruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the law for the priests and for the Levites from the fields belonging to the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.

1 Samuel 9:9

(Formerly in Israel, anyone who went to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for the one who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)