1 Chronicles 9:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in charge of the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ But these Levites, the four chief gatekeepers, were in charge of the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Due to their trustworthiness, the four master gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in charge of the rooms and the treasuries of God’s house.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ To these four Levites were entrusted the entire number of the gatekeepers, and they were over the chambers and storehouses of the house of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the porters. And they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 9:26 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 9:25

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

1 Chronicles 9:27

And they would spend the night near the house of God, for on them lay the duty of watching, and they had charge of opening it every morning.

Nehemiah 13:5

prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

Jeremiah 35:2

Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink.

Ezekiel 40:17

Then he brought me into the outer court; there were chambers there and a pavement all around the court; thirty chambers fronted on the pavement.