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2 Chronicles 34:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They were also over the porters and were supervising all those doing the work task by task. Some of the Levites were secretaries, officers, and gatekeepers.

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In Judah, it was said: The strength of the labourer fails, since there is so much rubble. We will never be able to rebuild the wall.


Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.


Then the chief priests  and the elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas,


‘How can you claim, “We are wise; the law of the Lord is with us”? In fact, the lying pen of scribes has produced falsehood.


‘Note that Amariah, the chief priest, is over you in all matters related to the Lord, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all matters related to the king, and the Levites are officers in your presence. Be strong; may the Lord be with those who do what is good.’


According to the ordinances of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests over their service,  of the Levites over their responsibilities to offer praise and to minister before the priests following the daily requirement,  and of the gatekeepers by their divisions with respect to each temple gate,  for this had been the command of David, the man of God.


These were King Solomon’s district governors: 250 who supervised the people.


I will give your servants, the woodcutters who cut the trees, four million four hundred thousand litres  of wheat flour, four million four hundred thousand litres of barley, four hundred and forty thousand litres  of wine, and four hundred and forty thousand litres of oil.


Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals to play and musical instruments of God.  Jeduthun’s sons were at the city gate.


He assigned Obed-edom  and his  sixty-eight relatives. Obed-edom son of Jeduthun and Hosah  were to be gatekeepers.


With them were their relatives second in rank: Zechariah, Jaaziel,  Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.


The gatekeepers:  Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives. Shallum was their chief;


The diseased men came and called to the city’s gatekeepers and told them, ‘We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there #– #no human sounds. There was nothing but tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact.’





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