1 Chronicles 9:18
Modern Translations
New International Version
being stationed at the King's Gate on the east, up to the present time. These were the gatekeepers belonging to the camp of the Levites.

New Living Translation
Prior to this time, they were responsible for the King’s Gate on the east side. These men served as gatekeepers for the camps of the Levites.

English Standard Version
until then they were in the king’s gate on the east side as the gatekeepers of the camps of the Levites.

Berean Study Bible
he was previously stationed at the King’s Gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the Levites.

New American Standard Bible
being stationed until now at the king’s gate to the east). These were the gatekeepers for the camp of the sons of Levi.

NASB 1995
being stationed until now at the king's gate to the east). These were the gatekeepers for the camp of the sons of Levi.

NASB 1977
being stationed until now at the king’s gate to the east). These were the gatekeepers for the camp of the sons of Levi.

Amplified Bible
who until now was assigned to the king’s gate on the east side) they were the gatekeepers for the camp of the Levites.

Christian Standard Bible
he was previously stationed at the King’s Gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the Levites.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
he was previously stationed at the King's Gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the Levites.

Contemporary English Version
and for a long time they had been the guards at the King's Gate on the east side of the city. Before that, their ancestors guarded the entrance to the Levite camp.

Good News Translation
Down to that time members of their clans had been stationed at the eastern entrance to the King's Gate. Formerly they had stood guard at the gates to the camps of the Levites.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Formerly, they were stationed at the king's gate on the east side. They were the gatekeepers for the Levite quarters.

International Standard Version
He used to be stationed in the King's Gate on the east side as one of the gatekeepers of the camp belonging to the descendants of Levi.

NET Bible
he serves to this day at the King's Gate on the east. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the descendants of Levi.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

New King James Version
Until then they had been gatekeepers for the camps of the children of Levi at the King’s Gate on the east.

King James 2000 Bible
Who until then waited in the king's gate eastward: they were gatekeepers in the camp of the children of Levi.

New Heart English Bible
who were previously stationed at the King's Gate on the east: they were the gatekeepers for the camp of the descendants of Levi.

World English Bible
who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

American King James Version
Who till now waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

American Standard Version
who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

A Faithful Version
And before they were at the king's gate eastward, they were gatekeepers in the companies of the children of Levi.

Darby Bible Translation
And they have been hitherto in the king's gate eastward: they were the doorkeepers in the camps of the children of Levi.

English Revised Version
who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For they were porters to this time by companies of the children of Leui vnto the Kinges gate eastward.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For they watched hitherto, euen vnto the kinges gate eastwarde by course, the children of Leui.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
for hither to had the children of Leui kepte the watch at the eastsyde of the kinges gate by armies.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and until now they [are] at the gate of the king eastward; they [are] the gatekeepers for the companies of the sons of Levi.

Young's Literal Translation
and hitherto they are at the gate of the king eastward; they are the gatekeepers for the companies of the sons of Levi.

Smith's Literal Translation
And hitherto in the king's gate from the sunrising: they keeping the gate for the camps of the sons of Levi.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Until that time, in the king's gate eastward, the sons of Levi waited by their turns.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For until that time, at the gate of the king to the east, the sons of Levi served in their turns.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Thus far is the eastern gate of the King. These were the Doorkeepers who stand by the Guards of the children of Levi.

Lamsa Bible
Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward; they were the porters in the companies of the descendants of Levi.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward; they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and he waited hitherto in the king's gate eastward: these are the gates of the companies of the sons of Levi.
















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