"Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi."
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And 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.
And 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.
Among 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.
Then 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.
And 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.
Thus 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.
Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.
And they have been hitherto in the king's gate eastward: they were the doorkeepers in the camps of the children of Levi.
Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.
and hitherto they `are' at the gate of the king eastward; they `are' the gatekeepers for the companies of the sons of Levi.