1 Chronicles 15:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 22:4 : 4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people:
  • 2 Kgs 25:18 : 18 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
  • 1 Chr 9:21-23 : 21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tent of meeting. 22 All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust. 23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, by wards.
  • Ps 84:10 : 10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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  • 1 Chr 15:24-25
    2 verses
    84%

    24Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

    25So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the house of Obed-edom with joy.

  • 1 Chr 15:18
    77%

    18and with them their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.

  • 1 Chr 9:21-23
    3 verses
    75%

    21Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tent of meeting.

    22All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.

    23So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, by wards.

  • Neh 12:24-25
    2 verses
    75%

    24The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers over against them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.

    25Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the store-houses of the gates.

  • 1 Chr 9:16-19
    4 verses
    74%

    16and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

    17The porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),

    18who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

    19Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers of the entry.

  • 1 Chr 16:37-38
    2 verses
    73%

    37So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required;

    38and Obed-edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;

  • 1 Chr 9:26-28
    3 verses
    73%

    26for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.

    27They lodged round about the house of God, because the charge [of it] was on them; and to them pertained the opening of it morning by morning.

    28Certain of them had charge of the vessels of service; for by count were these brought in and by count were these taken out.

  • 2 Chr 31:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

    14Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east [gate], was over the freewill-offerings of God, to distribute the offerings of Yahweh, and the most holy things.

  • 1 Chr 26:12
    72%

    12Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in the house of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 23:4
    71%

    4This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds;

  • 1 Chr 26:19
    71%

    19These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.

  • 2 Chr 34:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12The men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and [others of] the Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music.

    13Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all who did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

  • 2 Chr 35:15
    70%

    15The singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters were at every gate: they didn't need to depart from their service; for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.

  • 1 Chr 16:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with psalteries and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;

    6and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.

  • 2 Chr 23:19
    70%

    19He set the porters at the gates of the house of Yahweh, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.

  • 2 Kgs 25:18
    69%

    18The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

  • 1 Sam 7:1
    69%

    1The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Yahweh, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh.

  • Neh 12:45
    68%

    45They kept the charge of their God, and the charge of the purification, and [so did] the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

  • 1 Chr 15:14
    68%

    14So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 15:12
    68%

    12and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to [the place] that I have prepared for it.

  • Num 3:31
    68%

    31Their charge shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.

  • 1 Chr 16:42
    68%

    42and with them Heman and Jeduthun [with] trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and [with] instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.

  • Ezek 41:23
    68%

    23The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

  • Jer 52:24
    67%

    24The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

  • Ezek 40:45
    67%

    45He said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house;

  • Neh 3:6
    67%

    6The old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams of it, and set up the doors of it, and the bolts of it, and the bars of it.

  • Ezra 10:23
    67%

    23Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

  • 2 Kgs 22:4
    67%

    4Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people:

  • 1 Chr 26:1
    67%

    1For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

  • 1 Chr 18:17
    67%

    17and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

  • 1 Kgs 8:7
    67%

    7For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above.

  • Neh 7:1
    67%

    1Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

  • Neh 12:9
    67%

    9Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were over against them according to their offices.

  • Neh 11:19
    67%

    19Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.

  • Jer 35:4
    67%

    4and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

  • 1 Chr 12:6
    67%

    6Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites,

  • Neh 7:45
    67%

    45The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight.