So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.”
1 Chronicles 9:17 - Revised Standard Version The gatekeepers were: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their kinsmen (Shallum being the chief), Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The gatekeepers were: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their kinsmen, Shallum being the chief American Standard Version (1901) And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief), Common English Bible The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, and Ahiman. Their brother Shallum was the leader, Catholic Public Domain Version Now the gatekeepers were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman; and their brother Shallum was the leader. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the porters were Sellum, and Accub, and Telmon, and Ahiman: and their brother Sellum was the prince. |
So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.”
four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments which I have made for praise.”
and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
stationed hitherto in the king's gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers of the camp of the Levites.
According to the ordinance of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before 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.
The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, in all one hundred and thirty-nine.
The gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brethren, who kept watch at the gates, were a hundred and seventy-two.