Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
David
Samuel
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Bible References
In their
1 Chronicles 9:16
and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
Nehemiah 11:25
And for the villages, with their fields, some of the sons of Judah lived at Kirjath-arba, and in its villages, and at Dibon, and in its villages, and at Jekabzeel, and its villages,
Nehemiah 12:28
And the sons of the singers gathered themselves, both out of the plain country around Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathi;
David
1 Chronicles 28:13
And for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah, and for all the vessels of service in the house of Jehovah;
Samuel
1 Samuel 9:9
(In the old days in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said this: Come, let us go to the seer, for the prophet of today was before called a seer.)
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1 Chronicles 15:23
And Berechiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers for the ark.