1 Chronicles 9:17-27

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¹⁷The gatekeepers:^(A) Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives.

Shallum was their chief; ¹⁸he was previously stationed at the King’s Gate on the east side.^(B) These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the Levites.

¹⁹Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah and his relatives from his ancestral family, the Korahites, were assigned to guard the thresholds of the tent.^[a] Their ancestors had been assigned to the Lord’s camp as guardians of the entrance.^(C) ²⁰In earlier times Phinehas son of Eleazar had been their leader, and the Lord was with him.^(D) ²¹Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was the gatekeeper at the entrance to the tent of meeting.^(E)

²²The total number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their settlements. David and the seer Samuel had appointed them^(F) to their trusted positions. ²³So they and their sons were assigned as guards to the gates of the Lord’s temple, which had been the tent-temple. ²⁴The gatekeepers were on the four sides: east, west, north, and south. ²⁵Their relatives came from their settlements^(G) at fixed times to be with them seven days,^(H) ²⁶but the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of God’s temple.^(I) ²⁷They spent the night in the vicinity of God’s temple, because they had guard duty and were in charge of opening it every morning.^(J)

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9:19 = the temple

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