Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
The bearers
And of the levites
Bible References
The bearers
2 Chronicles 2:10
And, behold, I will give to thy slaves, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand baths of wine and twenty thousand baths of oil.
2 Chronicles 8:10
And King Solomon had two hundred and fifty princes of the governors, who presided over the people.
Nehemiah 4:10
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish so that we are not able to build the wall.
And of the levites
1 Chronicles 23:4
Of which, twenty-four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD, and six thousand were officers and judges;
Officers
2 Chronicles 19:11
Behold, Amariah, the high priest, who shall be over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah, the son of Ishmael, prince of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters; and the Levites who shall be teachers before you. Take courage and do, for the LORD shall be with the good.
1 Chronicles 23:4
Of which, twenty-four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD, and six thousand were officers and judges;
1 Chronicles 26:29
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were governors and judges over Israel.
Porters
2 Chronicles 8:14
And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, each thing in its day; the porters also by their courses at each gate, for so had David, the man of God, commanded.
1 Chronicles 9:17
And the porters: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brethren; Shallum was the head.
1 Chronicles 15:18
and with them their brethren of the second order, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.
1 Chronicles 16:38
and Obededom with their brethren, sixty-eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters.
1 Chronicles 26:1
Concerning the divisions of the porters, of the Korhites: Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
Ezra 7:7
And there went up some of the sons of Israel and of the priests and the Levites and the singers and the porters and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes, the king.