1 Tawarikh 9:21-23

9:21 Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was the guard at the entrance to the meeting tent.

9:22 All those selected to be gatekeepers at the entrances numbered 212. Their names were recorded in the genealogical records of their settlements. David and Samuel the prophet ¹  had appointed them to their positions. ²  9:23 They and their descendants were assigned to guard the gates of the Lord’s sanctuary (that is, the tabernacle). ³ 

1 Tawarikh 9:2

9:2 The first to resettle on their property and in their cities were some Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants. ⁴ 

Kisah Para Rasul 22:4

22:4 I ⁵  persecuted this Way ⁶  even to the point of death, ⁷  tying up ⁸  both men and women and putting ⁹  them in prison,

Kisah Para Rasul 25:18

25:18 When his accusers stood up, they did not charge ¹⁰  him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected. ¹¹ 

Mazmur 84:10

84:10 Certainly ¹²  spending just one day in your temple courts is better

than spending a thousand elsewhere. ¹³ 

I would rather stand at the entrance ¹⁴  to the temple of my God

than live ¹⁵  in the tents of the wicked.

[9:22]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term is רֹאֶה (ro’eh, “seer”), an older word for נָבִיא (navi’, “prophet”).

[9:22]  ² tn Heb “they – David appointed, and Samuel the seer, in their position.”

[9:23]  ³ tn Heb “and they and their sons to the gates of the house of the Lord, of the house of the tent, [were assigned] as guards.”

[9:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the inhabitants, the first who [were] in their property in their cities, Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.”

[22:4]  ⁵ tn Grk “who.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the relative pronoun (“who”) was translated by the first person pronoun (“I”) and a new sentence begun in the translation.

[22:4]  ⁶ sn That is, persecuted the Christian movement (Christianity). The Way is also used as a description of the Christian faith in Acts 9:2; 18:25-26; 19:9, 23; 24:14, 22).

[22:4]  ⁷ tn BDAG 442-43 s.v. θάνατος 1.a has “διώκειν ἄχρι θανάτου persecute even to death Ac 22:4.”

[22:4]  ⁸ tn Grk “binding.” See Acts 8:3.

[22:4]  ⁹ tn BDAG 762 s.v. παραδίδωμι 1.b has “W. local εἰς…εἰς φυλακήν put in prison Ac 8:3; cp. 22:4.”

[25:18]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “they brought no charge of any of the evil deeds.” BDAG 31 s.v. αἰτία 3.b has “αἰτίαν φέρειν…bring an accusation Ac 25:18.” Since κατήγοροι (kathgoroi, “accusers”) in the previous clause is somewhat redundant with this, “charge” was used instead.

[25:18]  ¹¹ tn Or “I was expecting.”

[84:10]  ¹² tn Or “for.”

[84:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “better is a day in your courts than a thousand [spent elsewhere].”

[84:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I choose being at the entrance of the house of my God over living in the tents of the wicked.” The verb סָפַף (safaf) appears only here in the OT; it is derived from the noun סַף (saf, “threshold”). Traditionally some have interpreted this as a reference to being a doorkeeper at the temple, though some understand it to mean “lie as a beggar at the entrance to the temple” (see HALOT 765 s.v. ספף).

[84:10]  ¹⁵ tn The verb דּוּר (dur, “to live”) occurs only here in the OT.