the porters so also R.V.; although it is noteworthy that having substituted -door-keepers" for -porters" (A.V.) in 1 Chronicles 26:1, the R.V. has not for the sake of consistency made a similar alteration here, the word in Hebrew being the same in both instances. The door-keepers mentioned here and in 1 Chronicles 26:1-19 are Levites: possibly the name -porters" was preserved to distinguish the Leviticalattendants from the priestlydoor-keepers (or more literally -keepers of the threshold") mentioned in 2 Kings 25:18; Jeremiah 35:4. Compare Psalms 84:10 -I had rather be a doorkeeper in (marg.: -stand at the threshold of") the house of my God".

The names are clearly the names of households or courses, since Shallum, Akkub and Talmon are mentioned in 1 Chronicles 9:17, and Akkub and Talmon are referred to in Nehemiah 11:19.

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