Reference: Porter
Hastings
PORTER in English Version has always the sense of 'doorkeeper' (see House,
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And they came to the midst of the house, bringing wheat. And they struck him in the belly. And Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
And the gatekeepers were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman; and their brothers, Shallum was the chief.
And the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were chosen to sound with cymbals of bronze;
For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
The doorkeeper opens to him, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.