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.
20Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, [and] Yahweh was with him.
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.
