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.
      V. Here is one Phinehas, a son of Eleazar, that is said to be a ruler over them in time past (1 Chronicles 9:20; 1 Chronicles 9:20), not the famous high priest of that name, but (as is supposed) an eminent Levite, of whom it is here said that the Lord was with him, or (as the Chaldee reads it) the Word of the Lord was his helper--the eternal Word, who is Jehovah, the mighty one on whom help is laid.