“All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.”
Bible
“Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.”
“And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.”
“Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.”
“When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.”
J. P. Donleavy
“I know Walter can block Porter. If he couldn't, we wouldn't be in this game.”
Gil Haskell
“And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.”
