2 Chronicles 23:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Levites are to completely surround the king with weapons in hand. Anyone who enters the temple is to be put to death. Accompany the king in all his daily tasks.’

Cross References

Numbers 3:38

Moses, Aaron, and his sons, who performed the duties of  the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites, camped in front of the tabernacle on the east,  in front of the tent of meeting towards the sunrise. Any unauthorised person who came near it was to be put to death.

Numbers 3:10

You are to appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out their priestly responsibilities, but any unauthorised person who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.’

Exodus 21:14

If a person schemes and wilfully  acts against his neighbour to murder him, you must take him from my altar to be put to death.

2 Chronicles 23:6

No one is to enter the Lord’s temple but the priests and those Levites who serve;  they may enter because they are holy, but all the people are to obey the requirement of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 23:8

So the commanders of hundreds did everything the priest Jehoiada commanded. They each brought their men #– #those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty on the Sabbath #– #for the priest Jehoiada did not release the divisions.