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.
      III. The most of them dwelt at Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 9:34; 1 Chronicles 9:34), yet there were some that dwelt in the villages (1 Chronicles 9:16; 1 Chronicles 9:22), because, it may be, there was not yet room for them in Jerusalem. However they were employed in the service of the tabernacle (1 Chronicles 9:25; 1 Chronicles 9:25): They were to come after seven days from time to time. They had their week's attendance in their turns.