Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

Bible References

The king's

1 Kings 10:5
and the food of his table, and the deportment of his servants, and the order of service of his attendants, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Jehovah, there was no more spirit in her.
2 Kings 11:19
And he took the captains of the hundreds, and the bodyguard, and the couriers, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Jehovah, and came by the way through the gate of the couriers into the king's house. And he sat upon the throne of the kings.
Ezekiel 44:2
And Jehovah said unto me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter in by it: for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it; and it shall be shut.
Ezekiel 46:1
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working-days; but on the sabbath-day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
Acts 3:11
And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

They

1 Chronicles 26:12
Among these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, among the head-men, as to the charges together with their brethren, for performing the service in the house of Jehovah.