1 Chronicles 9:25

Conservative English Version

Their assistants lived in the villages outside the city, and every seven days a group of them would come into the city and take their turn at guard duty.

Cross References

2 Kings 11:5

and said to them: Here's what I want you to do. Three of your guard units will be on duty on the Sabbath. I want one unit to guard the palace.

2 Kings 11:7

The other two guard units are supposed to be off duty on the Sabbath. But I want both of them to stay here at the temple and protect King Joash.

1 Chronicles 24:19

These men were assigned their duties at the temple, just as the LORD God of Israel had commanded their ancestor Aaron.

1 Chronicles 9:24

There was one full-time guard appointed to each of the four sides of the temple.

1 Chronicles 9:26

The four full-time guards were Levites, and they supervised the other guards and were responsible for the rooms in the temple and the supplies kept there.

2 Chronicles 23:4

Here is what we will do. Three groups of priests and Levites will be on guard duty on the Sabbath--one group will guard the gates of the temple,

2 Chronicles 23:8

The Levites and the people of Judah followed Jehoiada's orders. The guards going off duty were not allowed to go home, and so each commander had all his guards available--those going off duty as well as those coming on duty.