2 Chronicles 23:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ one-third shall be at the king’s house, and one-third at the Gate of the Foundation, and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ and a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ A [second] third shall be at the king's house, and [the final] third at the Foundation Gate; and all the people shall be in the courts [only] of the house of the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ and a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of Jehovah.

Common English Bible

⁵ another third will be at the royal palace, and another third will be at the Foundation Gate. Meanwhile, all the people will be in the courtyards of the LORD’s temple.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ One third part of you who arrive on the Sabbath, priests, and Levites, and porters, shall be at the gates. Truly, one third part shall be at the house of the king. And one third shall be at the gate which is called the Foundation. Yet truly, let all the remainder of the common people be in the courts of the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 23:5 Cross References

Acts 3:2

And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those entering the temple.

Exodus 8:13

And the Lord did as Moses requested: the frogs died in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields.

2 Chronicles 23:4

This is what you are to do: one-third of you, priests and Levites, who come on duty on the Sabbath shall be gatekeepers,

2 Chronicles 23:6

Do not let anyone enter the house of the Lord except the priests and ministering Levites; they may enter, for they are holy, but all the other people shall observe the instructions of the Lord.