Reference: Porter
Hastings
PORTER in English Version has always the sense of 'doorkeeper' (see House,
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They came to the middle of the house as if to get wheat, and they struck him in the belly; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
Now the gatekeepers were Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their relatives (Shallum the chief
So the singers, Heman, Asaph and Ethan were appointed to sound aloud cymbals of bronze;
For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
"To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.