⁵ He then built a chambered structure^[a] along the temple wall, encircling the walls of the temple, that is, the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary.^(A) And he made side chambers^[b] all round.^(B)

⁸ The door for the lowest^[a] side chamber was on the right side of the temple. They^[b] went up a stairway^[c] to the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third.

²⁶ but the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of God’s temple.^(A)

³³ The singers,^(A) the heads of the Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other tasks because they were on duty day and night.^(B)