And for the colonnade on the west there were four at the road and two at the colonnade.
Observe, I. There were porters appointed to attend the temple, who guarded all the avenues that let to it, opened and shut all the outer gates and attended at them, not only for the state, but for service, to direct and instruct those who were going to worship in the courts of the sanctuary in the decorum they were to observe, to encourage those that...
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 26:1-19
As concerning the sons of Laadan,.... The same with Libni, see Ch1 23:7. the sons of the Gershonite Laadan; so called, to distinguish him from another Laadan, as Kimchi thinks: chief fathers, even of Laadan the Gershonite; that sprung from him: were Jehieli; and his sons next mentioned.
Parbar--is, perhaps, the same as Parvar ("suburbs," Kg2 23:11), and if so, this gate might be so called as leading to the suburbs [CALMET].