who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.
KJV
Who hitherto waited in the king’s gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
Commentary
Commentary
Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward,.... At the gate through which the king went into the temple, and was at the east of it; and here these porters were placed in the same order after the captivity, and their return from it, as before:
they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi; or in the camp of Levi, which was placed around the tabernacle, as in the wilderness: the Septuagint version is, "these are the gates of the camp of the children of Levi"; at which these porters were placed.
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