Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD and of the house of the tabernacle, to keep them.
New American Standard Bible
So they and their sons
King James Version
So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
Holman Bible
So they and their sons were assigned to the gates of the Lord’s temple, which had been the tent-temple.
International Standard Version
David and Samuel the seer installed them in their positions of trust, so they and their descendants were in charge of the gates of the house of the LORD, that is, the House of the Tent, as guardians.
A Conservative Version
So they and their sons had the oversight of the gates of the house of LORD, even the house of the tent, by wards.
American Standard Version
So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Jehovah, even the house of the tent, by wards.
Amplified
So they and their sons were in charge of the gates of the house of the Lord, that is, the house of the tabernacle, as guards.
Bible in Basic English
So they and their sons had the care of the doors of the house of the Lord, the house of the Tent, as watchers.
Darby Translation
And they and their sons were at the gates of the house of Jehovah, the house of the tent, to keep watch there.
Julia Smith Translation
And they and their sons over the gates to the house of Jehovah to the house of the tent, for the watches.
King James 2000
So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, as guards.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So they and their sons [were] over the gates of the house of Yahweh at the house of the tent as guards.
Modern King James verseion
So they and their sons were over the gates of the house of Jehovah, the house of the tabernacle, by watches.
NET Bible
They and their descendants were assigned to guard the gates of the Lord's sanctuary (that is, the tabernacle).
New Heart English Bible
So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, even the house of the tent, by wards.
The Emphasized Bible
So, they and their sons, were over the gates of the house of Yahweh, of the house of the tent, by watches.
Webster
So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
World English Bible
So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, by wards.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they and their sons are over the gates of the house of Jehovah, even of the house of the tent, by watches.
Themes
the Levites » Services of » Keeping the gates of the temple
Porters » Guards at the city gates, the doors of the king's palace, and doors of the temple
Interlinear
Bayith
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Chronicles 9:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Exiles Who Resettled In Jerusalem
22 All these were chosen fellows to keep the thresholds, two hundred and twelve, and were numbered in their villages. And them did David and Samuel the seer institute in their fidelity. 23 And their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD and of the house of the tabernacle, to keep them. 24 In four quarters were the keepers: toward the east, west, north and south.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 23:32
And that they should wait on the tabernacle of witness and on the holy place, and on the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 23:19
And he set porters unto the gates of the house of the LORD, that none that was unclean in any point should enter in.
Nehemiah 12:45
that they stood and waited upon the office of their God, and the office of the purification. And the singers and porters stood after the commandment of David and of Solomon his son:
Ezekiel 44:10-11
No nor the Levites that are gone back from me, and have deceived the people of Israel with errors, going after their idols: therefore shall they bear their own wickedness.
Ezekiel 44:14
Should I use them to be porters of the house, and to all the service that is done therein?