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 the hewers, those who 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 these were the chief of King Solomon's officers, two hundred and fifty who bore rule over the people.
Nehemiah 4:10
And Judah said, The strength of the carriers of burdens is weakening, and there is much rubbish, so that we are not able to build the wall.
And of the levites
1 Chronicles 23:4
Of these, twenty-four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of Jehovah, and six thousand officers and judges.
Officers
2 Chronicles 19:11
And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Jehovah. And Zebadiah the son of Ishmael is the ruler of the house of Judah for all the king's matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Take courage and act, and Jehovah shall be with the good.
1 Chronicles 23:4
Of these, twenty-four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of Jehovah, and six thousand officers and judges.
1 Chronicles 26:29
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
Porters
2 Chronicles 8:14
And according to the order of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; and the gatekeepers by their divisions at every gate; for so David the man of God had commanded.
1 Chronicles 9:17
And the gatekeepers were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman; and their brothers, Shallum was the chief.
1 Chronicles 15:18
And with them were their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.
1 Chronicles 16:38
also Obed-edom, with their brothers, sixty-eight; and Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be gatekeepers.
1 Chronicles 26:1
For the divisions of the gatekeepers: Of the Korahites: 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 gatekeepers, and the temple slaves, to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.