Porters
8 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
8 sections
- Guards at the City Gates, the Doors of the King's Palace, and Doors of the Temple
- Lodged Round About the Temple in Order to be Present for Opening the Doors
- One-Third Were Porters of the Gate of the Foundation
- One-Third Were Porters of the King's House
- One-Third Were Porters of the Temple
- Their Posts Were Determined by Lot
- They Also Served As Porters of the Gates of the Walls
- They Served in Twenty-Four Courses
Guards at the City Gates, the Doors of the King's Palace, and Doors of the Temple
- 1 Chronicles 9:17–32 These were the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives. Shallum was their chief; …
- 2 Chronicles 34:13 were over the laborers and supervised all who did the work, task by task. Some of the Levites were secretaries, officers, and gatekeepers.
- 2 Chronicles 35:15 The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer. And the gatekeepers at each gate did not need to leave their posts, because their fellow …
Lodged Round About the Temple in Order to be Present for Opening the Doors
- 1 Chronicles 9:27 They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they were responsible for guarding it and opening it every morning.
One-Third Were Porters of the Gate of the Foundation
- 2 Chronicles 23:5 a third shall be at the royal palace, and a third at the Foundation Gate, while all the others are to be in the courtyards of the house of the LORD.
One-Third Were Porters of the King's House
- 2 Chronicles 23:5 a third shall be at the royal palace, and a third at the Foundation Gate, while all the others are to be in the courtyards of the house of the LORD.
One-Third Were Porters of the Temple
- 2 Chronicles 23:4 This is what you are to do: A third of you priests and Levites who come on duty on the Sabbath shall keep watch at the doors,
Their Posts Were Determined by Lot
- 1 Chronicles 24:31 As their brothers the descendants of Aaron did, they also cast lots in the presence of King David and of Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the families of the priests and Levites— the family heads and their younger brothers alike.
- 1 Chronicles 26:13–19 They cast lots for each gate, according to their families, young and old alike. …
They Also Served As Porters of the Gates of the Walls
- Nehemiah 12:25 Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the gates.
They Served in Twenty-Four Courses
- 1 Chronicles 26:13–19 They cast lots for each gate, according to their families, young and old alike. …
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.