And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do. A third of you shall go in on the sabbath for keepers of the watch of the king’s house.
These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of Jehovah, according to their ordinance, to Aaron their father, as Jehovah God of Israel had commanded him.
For they were in faithfulness, the four chiefs of the gatekeepers; they were Levites and were over the rooms, and over the treasuries of the house of God.
And the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded. And each man took his men who were going in on the sabbath, the ones who were to go out on the sabbath. For Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions.