They came as far as the middle of the house [as if] takers of wheat, and they struck him in the stomach. Then Recab and Baanah his brother escaped.

And the gatekeepers [were] Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum [was] the chief);

Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [were] to sound bronze cymbals;

And Berekiah and Elkanah [were] gatekeepers for the ark.

Because better [is] a day in your courtyards than a thousand [elsewhere]. I would rather be at the threshold of the house of my God than to dwell in [the] tents of wickedness.

For this one the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

And [when] he knocked at the door of the gateway, a female slave {named} Rhoda came up to answer.