1 Chronicles 9:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ The gatekeepers were on the four sides: east, west, north, and south;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ The gatekeepers were stationed on the four sides [of the house of the Lord]–on the east, west, north, and south.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

Common English Bible

²⁴ The gatekeepers were on the four sides: east, west, north, and south.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ At the four directions, there were gatekeepers, that is, at the east, and at the west, and at the north, and at the south.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ In four quarters were the porters: that is to say, toward the east, and west, and north, and south.

1 Chronicles 9:24 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 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 9:25

and their kindred who were in their villages were obliged to come in every seven days, in turn, to be with them,

2 Chronicles 8:14

According to the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry alongside the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions for the several gates, for so David the man of God had commanded.