◄ 1 Chronicles 9:22 ►
The number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their positions of trust.
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in their

1 Chronicles 9:16, 25
Obadiah son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah son of Asa, the son of Elkanah who lived in the villages of the Netophathites. . . .

Nehemiah 11:25-30, 36
As for the villages with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba, Dibon, and Jekabzeel, and their villages; . . .

Nehemiah 12:28, 29, 44
The singers were also assembled from the region around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites, . . .

David

1 Chronicles 23:1-26:32
When David was old and full of years, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel. . . .

1 Chronicles 28:13, 21
for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of service in the house of the LORD, and for all the articles of service in the house of the LORD: . . .

Samuel

1 Samuel 9:9
(Formerly in Israel, a man on his way to inquire of God would say, "Come, let us go to the seer, " for the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.)

did ordain [heb] founded

1 Chronicles 9:26, 31
But the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of the house of God. . . .