Reference: Porter
Hastings
PORTER in English Version has always the sense of 'doorkeeper' (see House,
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They entered the interior of the house as if to get wheat and stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah escaped.
The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives. Shallum was their chief;
The singers Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals;
Better a day in Your courts than a thousand [anywhere else]. I would rather be at the door of the house of my God than to live in the tents of the wicked.
The doorkeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
He knocked at the door in the gateway, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer.