1 Chronicles 9:17–32

¹⁷Now the gatekeepers were ¹Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their relatives (Shallum the chief

¹⁸being stationed until now at ^athe king’s gate to the east). These were the gatekeepers for the camp of the sons of Levi.

¹⁹Shallum the son of Kore, the son of ¹Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent; and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers of the entrance.

^20aAnd Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them previously, and Yahweh was with him.

^21aZechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the entrance of the tent of meeting.

²²All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds were 212. These were recorded by genealogy in their villages, ^awhom David and Samuel the seer established ^bin their office of trust.

²³So they and their sons were over the gates of the house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, as those who kept watch.

²⁴The gatekeepers were ¹on the four sides, to the east, west, north, and south.

²⁵And their relatives in their villages ^awere to come in every seven days from time to time to be with ¹them;

²⁶for the four chief gatekeepers who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.

²⁷And they spent the night all around the house of God, ^abecause the watch was ¹committed to them; and they were over opening it morning by morning.

²⁸Now some of them were over the utensils of service, for ¹they counted them when they brought them in and when they took them out.

²⁹Some of them also were appointed over the furniture and over all the utensils of the sanctuary and ^aover the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices.

³⁰Some of ^athe sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.

³¹And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had ^athe office of trust over the things which were baked in pans.

³²Some of their relatives of the sons of the Kohathites ^awere over the showbread to prepare it every sabbath.