A third are to be at the Foundation Gate and a third at the gate behind the guards. You are to take turns providing protection for the palace. ,
and commanded them, ‘This is what you are to do: A third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath are to provide protection for the king’s palace.
‘Your two divisions that go off duty on the Sabbath are to provide the king protection at the Lord’s temple.
He took the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king from the Lord’s temple. They entered the king’s palace by way of the guards’ gate. Then Joash sat on the throne of the kings.