So they came and called out to the city gatekeepers, and told them, “We went to the camp of the Arameans, and look, there was not a single soul there, no human voice—just the horses and the donkeys tied up, and the tents just as they were.”
1 Chronicles 9:17 - Tree of Life Version The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman and their brothers. Shallum was the leader; 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 out to the city gatekeepers, and told them, “We went to the camp of the Arameans, and look, there was not a single soul there, no human voice—just the horses and the donkeys tied up, and the tents just as they were.”
4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 for praising Adonai “with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
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.
he serves to this day at the king’s gate to the east. These were the gatekeepers for the camp of the descendants of Levi.
Following the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the kohanim for their avodah and the Levites for their duties—to praise and minister alongside the kohanim according to the daily assignment—and the gatekeepers by their divisions at every gate, because this is what 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 139
Also there were 172 gatekeepers Akkub, Talmon and their brothers—who kept watch at the gates.