The porters, like the singers (Nehemiah 12:29), lived for the most part in the villages around Jerusalem. They were the descendants of …

All these who were chosen to be porters in the gates (Hebrew, thresholds) were two hundred and twelve. — This seems to assign the…

All those that were chosen to be porters in the gates were
two hundred and twelve
As …

This chapter expresses that one end of recording all these genealogies was to direct the Jews, when they returned from captivity, with whom to unit…