four thousand.... porters. In 1 Chronicles 2. we have the ninety-three chiefs. The 212 in 1 Chronicles 9:22 pertained to the Tabernacle, not to the Temple (1 Chronicles 9:21).
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1 Chronicles 23:5
5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.