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1 Chronicles 9

1 Chron. 9:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Who hitherto waited in the king’s
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
gate
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
eastward
mizrach (Hebrew #4217)
sunrise, i.e. the east
KJV usage: east (side, -ward), (sun-)rising (of the sun).
Pronounce: miz-rawkh'
Origin: from 2224
: they were porters
show`er (Hebrew #7778)
a janitor
KJV usage: doorkeeper, porter.
Pronounce: sho-are'
Origin: or shomer {sho-are'}: active participle of 8176 (as denominative from 8179)
in the companies
machaneh (Hebrew #4264)
an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts)
KJV usage: army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.
Pronounce: makh-an-eh'
Origin: from 2583
of the children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Levi
Leviy (Hebrew #3878)
attached; Levi, a son of Jacob
KJV usage: Levi. See also 3879, 3881.
Pronounce: lay-vee'
Origin: from 3867
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Cross References

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Who hitherto waited.The original is {weäd hennah,} which Houbigant and Dr. Geddes consider as a proper name, and render, "And Adanah was over the eastern gate, called the king's;" i.e., the gate by which the kings of Judah went to the temple.
The list is here nearly the same with those found in Ezra and Nehemiah, and contains those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel: but the list in Nehemiah is more ample, probably because it contains those who came afterwards; the object of the sacred writer here being to give the names of those who came first, (ver. 2.)
These consisted of men belonging not only to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but to many of the other tribes of Israel, who took advantage of the proclamation of Cyrus to return to Jerusalem.
Properly speaking, the divisions mentioned here constituted the whole of the Israelitish people, who were divided into priests, Levites, common Israelites, and Nethinims.the king's.
1 Kings 10:5• 5And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her. (1 Kings 10:5)
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2 Kings 11:19• 19And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings. (2 Kings 11:19)
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Ezek. 44:2‑3• 2Then said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
 3It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. (Ezek. 44:2‑3)
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Ezek. 46:1‑2• 1Thus saith the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
 2And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. (Ezek. 46:1‑2)
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Acts 3:11• 11And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering. (Acts 3:11)
they.
1 Chron. 26:12‑19• 12Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the Lord.
 13And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.
 14And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
 15To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.
 16To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
 17Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.
 18At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
 19These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari. (1 Chron. 26:12‑19)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they have been hitherto in the king’s gate eastward: they were the doorkeepers in the camps of the children of Levi.