1 Chronicles 9:17–32

¹⁷And the doorkeepers: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren; Shallum was the chief. ¹⁸And they have been hitherto in the king’s gate eastward: they were the doorkeepers in the camps of the children of Levi. ¹⁹And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, and their fathers, set over the camp of Jehovah, were keepers of the entrance. ²⁰And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them formerly; Jehovah was with him. ²¹Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was doorkeeper at the entrance to the tent of meeting. ²²All these chosen to be doorkeepers at the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were registered by genealogy according to their villages: David and Samuel the seer had instituted them in their trust. ²³And they and their sons were at the gates of the house of Jehovah, the house of the tent, to keep watch there. ²⁴At the four quarters were the doorkeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south. ²⁵And their brethren, in their villages, were to come after every seven days from time to time with them. ²⁶For in their trust these four were the chief doorkeepers: they were Levites; and they were over the chambers and over the treasuries of the house of God; ²⁷for they stayed round about the house of God during the night, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them. ²⁸And part of them had the charge of the instruments of service, for by number they brought them in and by number they brought them out. ²⁹Part of them also were appointed over the vessels, and over all the holy instruments, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. ³⁰And it was some one of the sons of the priests who compounded the ointment of the spices. ³¹And Mattithiah of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was in trust over the things that were made in the pans. ³²And some of the sons of the Kohathites, their brethren, were over the loaves to be set in rows, to prepare them every sabbath.