⁵ and commanded them, ‘This is what you are to do: A third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath^(A) are to provide protection for the king’s palace.

⁷ ‘Your two divisions that go off duty on the Sabbath are to provide the king protection at the Lord’s temple.

⁸ So the commanders of hundreds did everything the priest Jehoiada commanded. They each brought their men – those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty on the Sabbath – for the priest Jehoiada did not release the divisions.^(A)