Thresholds, The.
This word, Asuppe, appears to be inaccurately rendered in
though its real force has perhaps not yet been discovered. The "house of Asuppim," or simply "the Asuppim," is mentioned in
as a part, probably a gate of the enclosure of the "house of Jehovah," apparently at its southwest corner. The allusion in
is undoubtedly to the same place. [GATE]
See Gate
For Obed-edom it fell to the south, and to his sons went the storehouse.
On the east there were six Levites, on the north four daily, on the south four daily, and at the storehouse two by two.
Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon and Akkub were gatekeepers keeping watch at the storehouses of the gates.
from Beth-gilgal and from their fields in Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.
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