1 Chronicles 9:13–28

¹³and their relatives, heads of their fathers’ households, 1,760 very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

^14aOf the Levites were Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

¹⁵and Bakbakkar, Heresh and Galal and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of ¹Zichri, the son of Asaph,

¹⁶and ¹Obadiah the son of ²Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

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 the Lord, keepers of the entrance.

^20aPhinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them previously, and the Lord 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 enrolled by genealogy in their villages, ^awhom David and Samuel the seer appointed ^bin their office of trust.

²³So they and their sons ¹had charge of the gates of the house of the Lord, even the house of the tent, as guards.

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

²⁵Their 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.

²⁷They spent the night around the house of God, ^abecause the watch was ¹committed to them; and they were ²in charge of opening it morning by morning.

²⁸Now some of them ¹had charge of the utensils of service, for ²they counted them when they brought them in and when they took them out.